I served as the creative lead for the interactive entrance sequence of Emberence: What Fire Remembers, an immersive, poetic installation, reflecting on the Los Angeles wildfires through the lens of memory and transformation. I designed the first chapter of the exhibition—the “becoming” moment—where visitors are essentially turned into a flame so they can move through the rest of the experience from a flame’s perspective. We split the entrance hall into two interactive sections using projection mapping and TouchDesigner-generated visuals layered directly onto the walls: in the first section, Arduino-based sensors detected visitors as they walked past and triggered flames that sparked and followed their movement; in the second, a sensor captured the visitor’s silhouette and projected it back as a living, flame-like reflection.
