Art

Art for Awareness

I use art as a medium to address these human influenced shifts in the ecosystem and the lenses of design and science to create modular remedies to currently fit on to existing modes of development

Tracing imbalances created by the anthropocene, and exploring symbiotic relationships between science, design, anthropology, mythology and environmental disciplines.

Waylon produces objects and artworks that contemplate the multi-dimensional aspects of ecology within a paradoxical contemporary framework. His practice translates both personal observation and technical data into aesthetically constructed devices that communicate and propose solutions.

His current artistic commentaries address marine biodiversity in particular, and the manner in which relentless capitalism and consumerism are contaminating, fragmenting and destroying these eco-zones that are crucial to survival.

Utilising visual and factual information gathered from varied sites and landscapes, he builds conscious patterns that reflect the fundamental elements of the universe itself. Notions of interdependence of species, the retaliation of nature under pressure, and numerous truths that the economic world appears blind and deaf to, appear as prominent threads of discourse throughout his work.

Waylon has developed a language of expression that allows these harsh commentaries to be represented as symbolic design narratives, that provoke thought and linger in the viewer’s conscience.

- Lina Vincent Sunish

Blue Carbon

Serendipity arts festival 2023

Metropolyp

A multidisciplinary and interactive, process driven art installation on conversations between corals and the capitalocene

Corals have endured through millennia and have formed the architecture and a bustling metropolis that not only supports lifestyles and proliferation of 25 % of marine species, they sequester carbon and agents of biocalcification.

Coincidentally our very own metropolises use the very same main elements carbon and calcium for structure and energy but ironically, through its morphology and methods it has led to destruction and loss of biodiversity in its wake.

I embarked on inviting scientists, researchers, architects, artists, teachers, engineers, divers and designers recreate a coral reef, where they act together as different species forming a seamless ecosystem, through integration instead of separation.

The participants engaged in resource sharing , recycling , and their intellectual, ideological, cultural and aesthetic get assimilated into the whole which is greater then the sum of its parts

This element is a form of community engagement and conversation around blue carbon, corals and climate by bringing together different practitioners and artists in a participatory, palpable and celebratory curated potluck assemblage of a spectrum of traditional mediums and new age AI and mathematical generated art.

This creates diversity in transient perspectives of displacement and occupation by understanding of the human and coral evolutionary interfaces

Unlike traditional practices of designated walls areas for different artists , here the participents have to have their works merge, overlap and grow together.

Co-creators

Sparsh Gupta, Kirity Sinha, Simar Puneet, Ape Chronicle Media

Vaishali S, Nimmi Joshi and Clayton Dsouza

Shrutii and Celestin Mascarenhas, Ian Anderson

Musharaff Hebballi, Sepia stories, Mrig, Blanche Mendonca,

Klove studio, Mansi Trivedi and Tenzin Gopal

Partha Patil, Meesha Holley, Kristoff Braganca Dhruv Athreye and Bala Malaivendan

Charmaine Pereira, , Danika Tavora, Coral woman Impact, Akansha Tiwari

Mrinalini Deshprabhu, Jennifer Parras, Aru Bose, Aaina and the Margaryan kids, Kimberley do Rego, Lucy Peres.

Reef-building corals, which reproduce through simultaneous multispecies spawning, are thought to hybridize frequently, and it is hypothesized that they have evolved in repeated rounds of species separation and fusion. Through cross-fertilization experiments and molecular analyses with a number of mass-spawning coral species, A high rate of interspecific fertilization occurred between some species despite very different morphologies have been observed.These reproductive and genetic characteristics are consistent with a species complex formed under the separation/fusion processes predicted for a reticulate evolutionary history.

Climate anxiety accretion aquarium

The aquarium incubates the intersection of science, evolution through various interactive technological, chemical and biological media. In it extrapolations lie genetic diversity of possibilities through cross pollination of various data patterns, human perspectives and practices on coral research and restoration practices

The video projections juxtapose the coral life and urban statistics on a timeline.

The interactive aspect switches from and macro coral growth, behavior and consumption processes to anthropogenic growth, practices and disturbances like pollution and competitive displacement, as the viewer walks through the installation.

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