Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Love Tree: An Interactive Experience
Home: California, United States
Love Tree is a captivating mirror illusion that fuses art, reflection, and human connection. Nestled within a beautifully sculpted fiberglass tree, this interactive piece invites you to align your eyes with a companion, blending your reflections into a shared face. As your features merge, the installation softly plays words of love, deepening the emotional experience and creating a mesmerizing moment of unity. Love Tree explores the beauty of human relationships, offering a playful yet profound reflection on love, identity, and togetherness. Inspired by TANZER. Created by Erin St Blaine with Shane Romick, Quirky Corky and Valentin Rotar. Fiberglass, LED lights, WLED, Adafruit QT Py Pico, Two-way mirror, Audio In memory of Tree Riley Rhodes. Miss you baby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost
Makers
Erin St Blaine's Mermaids & Magicians
Award winning LED artist Erin St Blaine has assembled a team of artists and magicians to bring old world illusion to a new audience. . Their shared passion for creating unforgettable experiences that leave people amazed and inspired was the driving force behind this collaboration.
https://www.erinstblaine.com/
What Inspired You to Make This?
During a particularly memorable performance, one magician's disappearing act sparked an idea. The gasps and astonishment of the audience planted the seed for an interactive Pepper's Ghost illusion installation. The magicians wondered if they could scale up the sense of wonder, enabling everyone to participate and manipulate the magic themselves. With this vision in mind, they embarked on a journey to develop an interactive installation for the Maker's Fair. Combining their extensive knowledge of magic, optics, and the LED artist's expertise in light manipulation, they designed a setup where attendees could make their friends appear translucent or slowly disappear, effectively blurring the lines between reality and illusion. Every adjustment and refinement brings them closer to their goal. They envisioned the delight and astonishment on people's faces as they interacted with the installation, experiencing firsthand the magic they had dedicated their lives to mastering. This collaborative effort was not just a showcase of technology and artistry but a testament to the power of curiosity and the joy of creating unforgettable moments for others,
