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Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space Baby) Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby) is an installation created by Michael Joo, an American-born Korean artist whose works are characterized by material, cultural and philosophical contrasts. This installation was selected to receive the grand prize of the Gwangju Biennale in 2006. Using contemporary technology, Joo explores the texture and nature of the stone material used in a 3rd century Buddha, which was created in the Gandharan area of Pakistan. A halo of surveillance cameras trained on the sculpture lit with fiber-optic lights will cast a series of projections onto walls and flat screened TV's and mirrors mounted on poles that surround the sculpture. Joo's past works frequently juxtapose the rarefied and the disposable; the sacred and the secular; the ancient and the contemporary. Brooks Atwood worked in collaboration with Michael Joo with the design and layout of the installation and creation of assembly/fabriation drawings required for the on-site installation of the hundreds of mirrors and TV's mounted on the poles creating a new type of collaboration between artist and architect. Photo (1): Tom Powel Imaging |