What looks solid at first glance becomes unreliable at close range. As viewers move, surfaces misalign and depth collapses, generating moments of visual contradiction. The installation reveals itself through instability, rewarding motion rather than stillness.

R&Dazzle was created for The Creators Project: New York 2011, a collaboration between Vice and Intel. The installation consists of two freestanding structures composed entirely of plywood panels zip-tied together. With no internal frame, geometry and triangulation alone provide stability. Each connection functions as both structural joint and visual articulation, allowing the forms to hold themselves up through a network of interdependent points.

The surfaces are deliberately irregular, producing a continuous field of faceted planes that resist easy reading. Rather than offering a frontal view, the work is defined by impossible perspectives—moments where depth, orientation, and scale collapse into ambiguity. Understanding emerges only through movement, as perception is continually recalibrated.

Graphic camouflage further destabilizes the object. Exterior patterns break down the outline of the form, disguising its volume against the surrounding environment. Inside, this logic is inverted: color and light are amplified, overwhelming spatial cues and intensifying disorientation.

Within, the installation behaves like an irregular kaleidoscope. Reflections fracture the surrounding environment into shifting composites that never fully resolve, blurring distinctions between inside and outside, object and context.

Through structure, camouflage, and reflection, R&Dazzle explores how static form can produce dynamic perception. The work resists singular interpretation, asking visitors to move, circle, and linger—an experience shaped by motion, instability, and discovery.

Photos of the installation