Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Artist 9: Martha Gabriel

Sensitive Rose

Sensitive Rose is an interactive compass rose that maps people's desires. It is formed by mobile tags and people interact with it through cell phones or mobile devices. The rose compass navigates the desires in a secret way through the tags which cannot be deciphered with the naked eye. The person must choose what he or she wants from life and the desire is mapped as a colored dot next to the tag related to it. The desires can only be read through a mobile tag reader installed in a cell phone or mobile device.

Source: http://www.sensitiverose.com/

This is kind of like the psychogeography mapping, but it does not map an actual place. It makes a map by navigating throught the desires of people. The desires are placed in the form of a colored dot next to the tag related to the desire. This map cannot be read like a normal geographic map, but it must be deciphered using a mobile device. When you look at it online, you just see the picture above, squares in the form of a flower with colored dots around it. This secret way of navigating the desires is symbolic for how we keep our desires secret and how we try to figure out what other people want from life.


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