Crooked Compass
communion tray, cups, latex tubing, stepper motors, arduino, cedar, hardware, flocking, wine
2022
Crooked Compass is a speculative wonderworking artifact gone awry. It recasts the Christian ritual of communion as an inevitably faulty navigational tool, animated by a continual cycle of abundance and lack. The elusive state of being fully forgiven is always in motion, yet the outpouring of grace never quite achieves the expression “My cup runneth over.”
(The communion tray tilts back and forth in a rotating motion. The liquid flows out of the higher cups into the lower cups through hidden plumbing, creating the appearance of a small circular tide across the separate vessels.)