animated digital sculpture for AR, 2023

Origin Stories (AR I) will rotate for normal displays. It is also interactive, allowing users to zoom in and out, and tilt the view.

Origin Stories carries on ideas explored in previous works where extinct species have taken the form of crystals. It is as though complex life has been transformed into pure carbon – that is, into the most concentrated forms of pure carbon in the natural world – diamonds. With monumental efforts to discover life elsewhere, how differently would we value any of the species which we allowed to go extinct today, if they were discovered on another planet?