Liquid Forest / Waste Plastic Sculptures

Burning Man Honoraria award for BM2023!

Liquid Forest is comprised of 3 whimsical, jellyfish-inspired creatures measuring between 12-15 feet tall by 12 feet in diameter. Each is a freestanding, hands-on spinning sculptural experience. During the day, people dance, whirl & flow through the family of jellies as lacy, sunlit shadows wash over them as well as make use of my free app ‘ilumiscope’ to view the hidden zoetrope artwork. At night, the radically illuminated jellies pulse and morph to create an artful ‘bio-luminescent’ playground! Each sculpture contains over 10,000 LEDs concealed in the recycled plastic rods and the strobe light bubbles activate the mirrored zoetrope art disks when the jellies spin!

These sculptures are made almost entirely from recycled plastic that I, along with a team of passionate volunteers, sourced, shredded, melted and re-formed into curved tentacle strands. Our team is a mixture of a core group of enthusiastic, skilled crafts-people and a fluid, changing crew of recycled plastic-curious volunteers.

Custom Hardware & Show Lighting: Rina Shkrabova