Animated tūi appear over William Morris’ ‘Strawberry Thief’ (1883) textile. This interaction occurs through AR.
Each hand-drawn frame represents the transformation of a non-native species into a native one. Here the thrush transforms into the korimako.
William Morris’ ‘Summer Compton’ (1896) is re-imagined as only native flora. This layering occurs in AR.
William Morris’ ‘Trellis’ (1864) represents an English garden scene. In AR, a view of my own garden is overlaid on top, featuring native waxeyes.
Bachelor of Design with Honours
The New Zealand Arts and Crafts Movement can be considered to have impacted Aotearoa’s native environment through its promotion of British garden aesthetics. ‘Ecological Entanglements’ re-imagines the Arts and Crafts Movement as though it were empowering our native species, instead of disrupting them. This narrative has been revealed through Augmented Reality (AR).
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