Mapping Love HRV

[et_pb_section bb_built="1"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text]2013, in collaboration with Roderic, Morrison and Terrill Mast, encaustic and mixed media on panel, 72" x 72" - (9) 24" x 24" panelsMapping Love. Sara Mast, Morrison Mast, Roderic Mast and Terrill Mast, 2013, encaustic on panels with interactive projection. An interactive work that bridges the mechanical era with today’s technological era, integrating fragments of Gifford Mast’s U.S. patent images from the 1940s through the 1960s with a contemporary iPhone app. The iPhone app was designed specifically for this piece by Filippo Basso, based on the original HeartsRing app designed by Dan Winter. The app measures the viewer’s HRV (heart rate variability), or “heart coherence,” by placing an index finger on the iPhone light. This measurement is projected as a colored light onto the constellation of the family tree, which floats above the concentric rings of grandson Morrison’s fingerprint. Gifford Mast is represented above the whorl of the fingerprint, with four generations radiating from him in a Fibonacci-like spiral. Icons for each family member are made from Gifford’s mechanical drawings and flecks of paint. His children, grandchildren and great grandchildren form a constellation in which each icon is positioned at a distance from Gifford that represents the year of their birth, with a radius of 100 years from Gifford’s birth in 1914. A circular timeline forms that reaches the painting’s edge. The projected light generated by the viewer pulsates with the rhythm of the viewer’s heart rate, and varies from deep orange to bright green, according to his/her own heart coherence.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]