PAVEL SELDEMIROV
REGHYBRID
PSPROJECTLASER-GRASSV01

LASER GRASS

NAME

SUBTITLEMetal blades with laser diodes, staggering in the wind like grass.

2016
RELEASE
MEDIUM
Outdoor light installation: black metal blades 30–100 cm high, planted in groups, each carrying a laser diode at its tip.
DIMENSIONS
200 blades over 14 m² (full) · 30 blades in the tested fragment
LOCATED
Red Arrow Residential Quarters, Moscow
STATE
EXISTS
NOTE
Installed permanently at Red Arrow since 2019 — may be switched off pending repair
RECORD
PSPROJECTLASER-GRASSV01
REGISTER
OPENSPECIMENSOURCEHYBRID
NOT IN THE RECORD
COLOUR · PROTOTYPE
G04 / Dusk / source photograph · WORK / SPECIMENVIEW ↗

The biological and the technological merge into one object where no element is displaced.

02

The field

WIND / BLADE / LIGHT

This is one of several projects dedicated to the coexistence of technological and biological culture, as well as the establishment of communicative interrelations between them.

A glade in the forest. In the ground at the level (30-100cm), in groups like real grass, black metal twigs are stuck on the ends of which laser diodes are installed. Metal blades of grass mimic the biological environment, eliminating the opposition between technological and biological. They stagger in the wind like grass. The lower the sun sinks, the brighter the lasers light up, striving into infinity, changing brightness, vibrating with the noise or wind force.

FIG. 01 / FIELD CONDITIONSSCHEMATIC / NOT TO SCALE
Wind moves the blades; each metal tip carries a laser diode. The drawing indicates a relation, not measured light output.
G03 / Blades among plants / source photographVIEW ↗
G01 / Test fragment / daylightVIEW ↗
03

Two scales

TEST FRAGMENT / FULL WORK
TESTED FRAGMENT30

blades in the photographed test

FULL VERSION200

blades over 14 m²

For me the main task in this project is not the construction itself, but its harmonious interaction with the surrounding world. So that the biological/technological would merge into one harmonious object where there is no displaced element.

The photos show a test of a fragment of the project in the amount of 30 blades of grass. The size of the full version is 200 blades of grass placed on 14m2.

G06 / Night field / source photographVIEW ↗
04

Documentation

SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHY
G02 / Light in the fieldVIEW ↗

The diode appears inside a field of plants and trees rather than apart from them.

G05 / Foliage / source photographVIEW ↗
G07 / Beams / source photographVIEW ↗
G08 / Light points / source photographVIEW ↗
ARTIST & CONCEPT
Pavel Seldemirov
CONSULTANT
Ildar Yakubov
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