The Flow of Thoughts
Artwork details
Polina Zhadko · 2023
Interactive installation
36 × 28 × 17 cm
About the work
Our thoughts and their constant shifts are shaped by countless factors, including external influences. We often absorb the behaviors and mindsets of those around us. Our environment becomes a mirror reflected within ourselves.
The Flow of Thoughts is an interactive light and sound installation that responds to its surroundings. It changes color in reaction to nearby objects and produces different sounds when objects approach it.
The artist draws a poetic parallel with quantum observation and uncertainty: interactions and the conditions of observation shape what can be perceived. Here, that analogy becomes a tangible experience of how surroundings influence the installation and the viewer.
The installation translates this quantum phenomenon into a tangible, human-scale experience — a poetic visualization of how observation and environment shape reality.