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Komorebi

2026 · HET HEM, ZAANDAM

Komorebi

Komorebi (木漏れ日) is the Japanese word for sunlight filtering through leaves. The piece pairs an oil-painter’s attention to value and edge with a small machine-learning model trained on a year of footage from a single stand of beech.

A live feed of wind, cloud cover, and time-of-day drives the simulation, so the projected light is never the same twice. The result sits deliberately between the analogue practice of the paintings and the contingency of a system left partly to its own devices.

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Installation view, west wall. Projection mapped onto raw plaster.
Installation view, west wall. Projection mapped onto raw plaster.
Detail — the canopy model responds to local wind speed in near-real time.
Detail — the canopy model responds to local wind speed in near-real time.
Twenty-minute loop (placeholder — replace with the real file in public/media/).