Sun Dog

The Giving Tree's prints held the record of a life — every ring a year. Sun Dog asked what would happen if that record kept growing.

Feed high-resolution scans of the hand-pulled wood impressions into a custom generative system, and let the tree's own patterns bloom into evolving circular imagery — halos, flowers, seasons of light — presented most prominently on a large circular LED display: the Moon Gate.

I led the creation of the work — the concept, the generative system's development, and its presentation design — coordinating with the event's technical partners for playback at scale.

Features drawn from the wood impressions drove a custom visual pipeline built for the piece, generating compositions that evolved continuously rather than looping. The work appeared across the event — on the main stage, as a courtyard projection, on communal displays — with the circular Moon Gate as its centerpiece.

A generative artwork with a provenance: not trained on the world's images, but grown from one tree's rings, hand-inked onto paper and given back as light.