Pine, PLA, MEMS laser projector, spraypaint, media player, custom software
The Johari Window is a heuristic for understanding one’s feedback/disclosure model of self-awareness.
On top of the enclosure is a peep hole, centered on the one of three apple shapes without visible imperfections. The electronic components of this work are invisible from this perspective, and the projected animation illuminates the ‘finished’ apple with a sequence of textures.
First we see a realistic apple skin, which in time appears to be peeled away to reveal dull and featureless grey metal, which is then peeled to reveal a wireframe, and so on.
This piece is displayed with its accompanying door seemingly torn off, laying on the floor beside the box. From the vantage of the open door, the projection reads more as a spotlight, and here our eye is drawn to the detritus surrounding the ‘subject apple’ - a pile of cast-offs, threads, support material, and partial prints.
Johari Window quadrant image courtesy of Wikipedia.
