This interactive installation is inspired by the tradition of the “message in a bottle”, wherein, a personal message is sealed inside a glass container and thrown out to sea in the hope of it reaching a reader at the end of its maritime journey.
The viewer is presented with a simple glass bottle and a plank of wood. Five distinct quotes surround five separate areas of the wooden platform. Upon being picked up and moved across the plank, the bottle triggers different sounds. The five auditory signals serve as another form of guidance, each relating to a certain quote. Once the container is placed on a specific point, an image or animation is projected into it. Each one of the five locations has its own set of imagery evoking a different character’s life. Every time the bottle is placed on a point, a new aspect of that person’s story is revealed.
