Designed in collaboration with Karran Kumar for the International Tomb of Waste Competition - an attempt to create installations using waste materials. Shortlisted in the competitions Top 25 List worldwide.
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The Liminal Stairway is set against the cascade of a staircase, breaking the rhythm by rising upward against it. The genesis of the idea lay in creating a narrow, interactive installation of overwhelming scale, to offer a deeply discomforting atmosphere while passing through it. Constructed using over 70,000 straws gathered locally - the largest single use waste product polluting the environment today. The tall, angled walls seem to be falling on those passing through, in an attempt to mimic the suffocation that plastics cause to plant and animal biodiversity.
The straws are stitched together on a flexible wire mesh, which allows them to be organically morphed by the users from both sides of the structure, hindering the movement patterns both inside and outside it - a metaphor to the cause and effect phenomenons that human interactions have, on each other and the environment around them.
A series of gold rings ornament the ceiling of the installation as a series of halos - alluding to the rebirth and reuse of waste materials. The entirety of the structure can be dismantled and recycled after use.