Muscle Memory is an interactive room scale installation consisting of projection-mapped animations, sound design, sculptural-mechanical forms, and hand painted illustrations. To tell its story, the piece welcomes viewers to enter its world and join the story through their actions.
The piece explores themes of personal growth, mental illness, childhood nostalgia, and the human collective unconscious through its symbolism and atmosphere.
Muscle Memory was created as my graduating senior thesis at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
The sound design in the video below is part of the piece, and was playing continuously throughout to enhance the immersivity of the world created.
pre-production sketch
Figuring out technical details was crucial for this installation. Materials, fabrication techniques, and scale were carefully decided for each component; the process involved laser-cutting, CNC-cutting, hand-cutting, hand-painting/sculpting, and more!