/ WYAA’23

Rumbo Mercy Platform Omega: Awaiting The Twilight Train, 2023,Mixed Media Interactive Installation 

Rumbo Mercy

Platform Omega: Awaiting The Twilight Train

She was a fish in a tank of air.
The quietness became markedly louder, as if her ears could be deafened by silence. Before her eardrums could crack under the pressure of nothingness, a voice over the intercom sounded.
Twilight Train to Platform Alpha at Mare Tranquillitatus Domain 0, The Insula.
ihe decision to take the Twilight Train to The Insula had been a painful and prolonged one to make. Space Kid resolved, however, that her journey to the esoteric Domain seemed inevitable.
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Platform Omega: Awaiting the Twilight Train, part of the Into The Insula series, is a chapter out of the narrative where the outcasted entity Space Kid arrives at Platform Omega to embark on the Twilight train to The Insula. On the threshold of a new journey at the station, Space Kid enters a metaphysical liminal space of introspection. As she awaits her departure, Space Kid begins to float, exploring the freeing feeling of the possibilities of yearning to belong, but rather embrace that which makes her unique.

This interactive installation invites viewers into a physical liminal space with sculpture, found materials and video installations via projection and via a fishbowl where both the character Space Kid and the viewer is given the agency to reflect on her character under a moment of suspension. The installation explores different representations of water through sounds, light, imagery and layering to relay the duality of the medium as an element of calm, peace and tranquillity and as one that is potentially and historically a site of violence, drowning and inflicting pressure. By submerging Space Kid underwater in the fishbowl and projecting the goldfish to the sky, a motif to symbolise Space Kid as a spectacle when othered,  this work becomes a play on the cognisant awareness of the environments we exist in and the elements of an environment we cannot see but affect us greatly.