Growing, Raining Tree (official project website)

This is an interactive installation of a Tree. As you approach the Tree, its limbs slowly come to greet you. Once they reach your location, the branches pull back and begin to drip rhythmically in response to your presence. When the Tree has no visitors, it takes a resting posture that many have described as “willow-like.”

Usually, robots take traditional forms, and trees are not one of them. It is interesting to see the potential of electronics to bring alive such a magical creature that reminds us that we are not the only living habitants of the world.

The installation is set up in a museum, where the tree is surrounded by white walls. I would like to have set up the scene in a more elaborated space. Where the tree is not the unusual thing, but rather part of a more natural context.