Thistle
AR sculpture · WebAR · 2024
Client: Tryn-Trava Project, New Tretyakovka | Format: WebAR sculpture | Role: Concept, 3D, AR development | Tech: Blender, AI, WebAR
CONCEPT / STORY
Thistle is an augmented reality sculpture reimagining a familiar plant as a futuristic artifact.
Crystalline calyxes and low-poly spikes grow not against nature, but alongside it — as a test root of technology embedded in living soil.
Thistle was created as a symbol of evolution through symbiosis.
Rather than opposing the natural world, the sculpture proposes a model where digital structures carefully integrate into organic systems. The plant becomes an artifact of coexistence resilient, adaptive, and hybrid by nature.
Its sharp geometry echoes both protection and growth, suggesting that survival in a changing environment requires transformation rather than resistance.
Artistic Intent
The work draws on the cultural symbolism of thistle as a resilient, unyielding plant, reinterpreted through a contemporary digital lens.
Crystalline forms and low-poly elements do not replace organic matter but extend it, forming a new visual ecology. Technology here acts as a supportive framework — not an invasive force, but a collaborator.
Thistle speaks about balance: how the artificial can grow into the natural without erasing it.
Exhibition History
Thistle is an augmented reality sculpture reimagining a familiar plant as a futuristic artifact.
Crystalline calyxes and low-poly spikes grow not against nature, but alongside it — as a test root of technology embedded in living soil.
Thistle was created as a symbol of evolution through symbiosis.
Rather than opposing the natural world, the sculpture proposes a model where digital structures carefully integrate into organic systems. The plant becomes an artifact of coexistence resilient, adaptive, and hybrid by nature.
Its sharp geometry echoes both protection and growth, suggesting that survival in a changing environment requires transformation rather than resistance.
Artistic Intent
The work draws on the cultural symbolism of thistle as a resilient, unyielding plant, reinterpreted through a contemporary digital lens.
Crystalline forms and low-poly elements do not replace organic matter but extend it, forming a new visual ecology. Technology here acts as a supportive framework — not an invasive force, but a collaborator.
Thistle speaks about balance: how the artificial can grow into the natural without erasing it.
Exhibition History
- “Tryn-Trava” Exhibition, New Tretyakov Gallery
- Blazar Art Fair
- AR collaboration with cafés during Art Week
AR EXPERIENCE
The sculpture appears in real space through a mobile device, merging seamlessly with its surroundings.
Placed within everyday environments — cafés, exhibition spaces, public interiors — Thistle feels simultaneously foreign and familiar, inviting viewers to reconsider where the boundary between nature and technology truly lies.
Placed within everyday environments — cafés, exhibition spaces, public interiors — Thistle feels simultaneously foreign and familiar, inviting viewers to reconsider where the boundary between nature and technology truly lies.
VISUAL LANGUAGE / ART DIRECTION
- thistle-like botanical structure
- crystalline calyxes and low-poly spikes
- organic silhouettes combined with geometric precision
- restrained but luminous color palette
The composition emphasizes growth, tension, and equilibrium.
PROCESS & TECH
Concept development and narrative research
3D sculpting of hybrid organic–digital forms
Material exploration between matte organic textures and crystalline surface
Optimization for mobile AR and WebAR deployment
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