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     Flora Periculi is an interactive installation that utilizes Paper Craft sculptures and LDR Sensors illuminated with UV-A light. Viewers are encouraged to play with the sculptures by waving their hands above it or blocking out the light to play music. The installation was inspired by theoretical plants and organisms that maybe found outside our planet. Initially, I wanted these sculptures to exist off-world somewhere alien and different from our planet, maybe a different kind of sun and chemicals are present in its environment. It plays music as a way to ward off predators. But people visiting this new-world are drawn to its glow like moths to a flame, and simply play with the melodies it can produce without ever thinking of the consequences.  Flora Periculi was derived from the latin words for Flower and Peril, It was developed as a critique of Europes age of Exploration, which eventually lead into the colonization of the Americas, South East Asia and Oceana's. It was a race f

Flora Periculi      In this project I wanted to utilize papercraft objects for an interactive installation. It would incorporate the objects as a housing unit for an Arduino microcontroller, to produce  sound and play audio files when viewers are within close proximity.  I wanted to recreate a plants defensive strategies against herbivores like toxins, mimicry, and mechanical protection like spines and thorns.    examples: Cacti with thorns, Vibrant Foxglove and its toxins, Succulents Camouflaged like rocks.  But in this case the organism would exist in a fictional exo-planet with strong winds and high levels of UV radiation. Unlike the earth plants that inspired it, this organism would produce sound to deter danger and glow a bright bluish-purple hue.  On its current iteration I've designed the plant to have sharp polygonal body, and a base inspired by the shape of barnacles as it would likely mount itself to the ground due the planets strong winds.  Cutting Template: (used blende