Patchy Heterogeneous Everything

Multi-surface art installation represents the digital imagination of the world of lichen. If we pay attention and look closer, these patchy heterogeneous tiny organisms are growing everywhere. Lichens meticulously sense their environments through form and texture creating an infinite visual assemblage. Aistė is fascinated by their diversity in polymorphic growth patterns, but particularly interesting she finds how their tentacular and multisensorial behaviour modes can inform our ways of sensing the surroundings and help to harmonize the missing intimacy between us and the environment. 

Interpreting biological analogy in design Aistė merges digital, physical, real and imaginary. Treating lichen as technology empowers to co-create together the new grammar of the lichen mind. Reordering and amplifying the less visible worlds enchants with unpredictable views of the symbiotic imagination. Creating unexpected results by combining various agents is her greatest pleasure. These self-organising, incredibly diverse ecosystems invite the viewers to experience new ways of seeing by following lichen.