PomPom Mirror by Daniel Rozin

PomPom Mirror2015

Custom software, faux fur pom poms, motors, control electronics, motion sensor, computer, wooden armature48 x 48 x 18 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 45.7 cmEdition of 3, 1 AP

Rozin’s anthropomorphic PomPom Mirror features a synchronized array of 928 spherical faux fur puffs. Organized into a three-dimensional grid of beige and black, the sculpture is controlled by hundreds of motors that build silhouettes of viewers using computer-vision. Along its surface, figures appear as fluffy animal-like representations within the picture plane, which is made permeable by a ‘push-pull’ forward and backward motion of meshed ‘pixels’. Ghostly traces fade and emerge, as the motorized composition hums in unified movement, seemingly alive and breathing as a body of its own.