Ouroboros

Ouroboros is a study of how physical spaces affect our state of mind. Using a crawl-through tunnel as a physical threshold, the installation explores the human need to find a private moment of reflection within a busy, overstimulating environment. It acts as a deliberate pause—a physical descent into a quiet, enclosed space that filters out the distractions of the surrounding exhibition. Inside the tunnel, participants are prompted to feel exactly how much their built surroundings dictate their mood, their movement, and their capacity for focus.

The project draws from the existential containment described in Franz Kafka's The Burrow, focusing on the instinct to navigate and find stability within "in-between" spaces. Rather than a traditional gallery experience, Ouroboros functions as a somatic audit, using a change in physical posture—crawling—to break the "autopilot" of daily movement. It is an exploration of how the architectures we inhabit, from the domestic to the industrial, shape our internal consciousness and our ability to connect with ourselves.

Using Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening approach, the system captures everyday ambient urban sounds and uses phase shifting and indeterminacy to transform them into abstract textures.