Murmuration

porcelain, lighting, and motion sensors

Murmuration is a sculptural installation of ceramic birds, each fitted with lightbulbs embedded in their bellies. When someone walks nearby, the bulbs flicker—brief, nervous, coordinated. Their glow mimics the collective twitch of a startled flock, but here the response is electrical, not aerial.

The work plays with the language of movement and the systems we use to track it. These birds don’t fly—they react. Their light doesn’t guide—it pulses like instinct, or static. The piece exists in the gap between gesture and intention, choreography and circuitry. A murmur, but not quite a message.