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Riddles demand answers and act as passwords to portals and catchments of the imagination. Like the thin strand caught between chopsticks, the comic, and the catastrophic are noodle-strands moving into the open mouth of a new-comer grappling entangled slippage. She wonders if fluid topology is a different route to the twists, folds, and tears of time. This too is a riddle, that has to be unravelled while walking through the installation.

Navigation through the work's enmeshed wires with a mobile phone will open the scenario with instances and strands of digital objects created via augmented reality. Floating figures will appear—drawn from topological anomalies, and from multiple histories and cultures of knots used by seafarers as anchors and connectors. Some of these objects can only appear as conceptual conceit in topological mathematics. These are spatial enigmas—drawn from knots, Mobius strips, a torus and spaghetti formation—that exist in multidimensional, conceptual geometry, but not in three-dimensional, actual, space. As protagonists in a dramaturgy of our new synthetic reality that moves between enmeshed and virtual, they dramatize the paradoxes of our time.

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