Projection Garden 01

Welcome to an interactive art installation where larger than life flowers bloom with vibrant projection mapped videos, inviting you into a multisensory dialogue with expressions of optimism and meditation.

Sculptor Jason Johnston was perusing the local sights of the Columbus Summer Arts Festival when he happened upon the Big Local Arts Stage located under the Rich Street Bridge where he experienced digital projection artist john cairns illuminating the dark space with animations of light as part of the nonprofit Mural Remix experience. In celebration of each other's work Jason shared his sculpture work with john and when Jason Johnston’s sculpted flowers first caught the eye of john cairns, they bloomed with silent invitation— white petals appearing like blank pages. It was then that the artists dreamed: these delicate forms, larger than life, could become living canvases for light, motion, and reflection.
The smooth surfaces of the sculpted flowers became canvases of color, bathed in slow-moving tides of abstraction — petals awash in dreams. Through projection mapping, the flowers are no longer static objects; they are alive with soft transformations of color.
In this quiet interaction, the voice transcends the self, becoming part of something greater— joyful, luminous, shared. Together, the interplay of light, sound, and sculpted form offers a presence. A meditative joy unfolds, like a bouquet gathered from a field of flowers. 

October 2 - November 1

Opening reception October 2, 5-7 pm

Featuring:

John Cairns and Jason Johnston