Equinox
Design-Build Competition Winner
2018
Collaborators: Daniel Vanderhorst, Novak Djogo, Max Humenyuk, and Zak Jacobi
The design installation named Equinox is a metaphor of the agricultural process. Signifying three cycles that the agriculture process relies upon -the sun, the water, and soil - are represented by three encircled hoops fashioned from reclaimed wood and interlaced with coper wire evocative of their respective element. A further representation of agriculture and the balance it requires is the central lavender flower, that reveals itself when there is a perfect alignment of the hoops. Lastly, the role of humans within the process of agriculture is expressed through the observer’s interactions with the installation; an observer’s act of aligning the hoops in order to reveal the flower mirrors the activity of humans reordering nature to allow for their desired plants to flourish.