When I started this project

When I started this project, I initially found myself drawn to abstract styled installations with kinetic movements. That was the general direction anyway, so although my presentation movie was shot in a home environment, the Corolla motion flower was designed to be an installation piece for public space where people are in transit from one space to another. Not a train station, that would be too busy, but a walkway in a gallery, or towards a reception area, generally in a space where you wouldn't especially expect to activate a response in a seemingly at first inactive object.

They would not be displayed in isolation, but hung in various sizes on walls in clusters, or at regular intervals along a walkway, corridor, bridge or wall. 

A spectrum of colours could be used along with altering the timing of the closing and opening of the flower to change the mood and reaction from subtle to vivid. 

The language of the fan, the coquet set of movements that would in times past speak secret messages to the onlooker, is now re-presented through the technology of the arduino, I liked the link between the message and the arduino, but a future adaptation could include the text printed on the poetry fan also changing with context.

I have enjoyed this project, I think the process as a whole has definitely improved my research techniques.

There were also a few ideas/avenues I could not peruse but have put on the 'back burner' for future explorations... Working with the heat sensitive paper, and the possibilities that thermo chromic inks/pigments can bring to name two.