Scanlab Projects

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse is a portrait of a place over time:
a year in the life of Phoenix and the Sonoran Desert.

Vast landscapes ebb and flow. The intimate breath of cacti is revealed.
Fragile soil subtly shifts. Sudden rushes of green flood desert floors. The sun arcs across epic rock formations. Heat lingers, longer each year.
Old life bakes into slow decay. Scorched. New life emerges. Succulent forms fold, expand, contract, and blossom in an exquisitely adapted response. 

Phoenix grows.  New asphalt laid; new homes born.
We irrigate, cultivate, herd, harvest, consume.
We gather - in ritual, in routine, in celebration.
Together we make beautiful patterns and leave permanent imprints.

Desert Pulse invites your attention,  a different perspective attuned to different timescales:
The lifespan of a saguaro. The slow formation of an aquifer. The fleeting blaze of a bloom.

Join us to contemplate change, and the pace of change.
To pause, to think, to hope.

‘Desert Pulse’ Gallery
365 days of LiDAR data and 93 days timelapse photogrammetric data, pointcloud animation, multi-channel video, spatial audio
24 minute loop

FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse, now open at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix ().

photos courtesy : ScanLAB Projects,