The Journey © EBnefsi Design

The Journey, is a 'site specific web site' and interactive installation developed by Nomadic collaborator Eileen Botsford, music by Yari Carrisi.

The Journey has been exhibited offline at Nomadics Trinity Buoy Wharf, London Jan 2005, Art Athens May 2005 and the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Science and Art” June 2005, Eugenidis Foundation, Athens, where Eileen Botsford al so gave a talk on 'The use of the natural human form and its existence through digital formats and mass exposure methods, for presentation within the public domain' | location: www.eugenfound.edu.gr | publishing

Art Historian and New Media Curator Anna Xadzigiannaki has written a piece about the work (in Greek), please read here

The Journey has also been exhibited by Cyber Arts 2005 - Ars Electronica | http://www.aec.at

Viewing Instructions: >> each branch you choose is a different path in life (generally just move your mouse around, you’ll get it) >> never press the back button, in life we only go forward, remember?

More on Eileen's work as a Public Artist can be viewed at ebnefsi.com

enter the journey by clicking on the embryo>>

 

 

Thinking behind it:

"I sat and thought about all the different emotions and stages and paths and situations life offers us. And the only ones I could develop visually where the ones I knew in my own life.

So maybe this piece is biased. But I did look inside myself, and I did give all I could at this point at my life, for this situation.

I do believe that at some point, we all feel certain situations, it’s just that we all feel them in different levels of intensity.

A tree, to me is The Journey. Each branch is a choice, path, situation, experience, emotion, you choose to take or feel in your life. In life we are only going forward. And so the branches you choose will only take you forward.

I see us as souls, which carry our body, our vehicle, through life, plunging it into feeling and sensing life.

Throughout this, I have found joy in misery and ultimate misery in joy. Understanding that emotions coexist and survive because of each other is a way of understanding the present.

Being present in time is rarely a conscious state. But when you do experience being present in the moment, all falls into place. In it’s own way, in a way words will never express, it all makes sense. So through visuals, I have tried to express the feeling of being present, and engaging with that feeling fully, without judging the situation.

To me, this is my explanation of our Journey. Maybe tomorrow I will have another explanation. As long as I have the privilege to visualize it, then I consider myself a lucky person.”

-Eileen Botsford