Glass, Marble, Light Projection Mapping, Dendrobium Stato Entangled Orchid, Water

Amy Thai, Alessandro Valenza, Yan-Paul Dubbelman

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Orchids have compelled people for centuries. Collectors have risked their lives for them. Botanists have devoted lifetimes to a single genus. There is something about the orchid that resists easy explanation: its complexity, its interdependency, the way it survives without soil.

Stato Entangled is a mixed media installation comprising a mouth-blown glass form which rises from the earth and stone of Carrara. Suspended within it is a living orchid, a new variety registered with the Royal Horticultural Society specifically for this work, presented here for the first time. It is not planted. It lives on air, supported entirely by the glass structure around it.

As it grows, the composition changes. The orchid extends toward light, shifts weight, alters the work. Slowly, on its own terms.

Light projection mapping moves across the full piece, finding each surface differently: the rough stone of the base, the transparency of the blown glass, the living form at the centre, the water held within. Three artists, working across different disciplines, from separate countries and separate studios. The work exists only where they converge.

The title draws from quantum entanglement, the principle by which two particles, once connected, share a single state regardless of distance. To observe one is to define the other.