Digital B-Orders

Digital B-Orders is an interactive installation enhanced by motion sensitive lighting. An ornately decorated artwork inspired by traditional Islamic Qur’an and manuscript illumination, Digital B-Orders, upon closer inspection reveals that there is more to meet the eye than what is apparent upon the intricate surface. 

The almost visible underlying structure alludes to the hidden order beyond the surface, in this case bringing newly interpreted life to a traditionally static art form. 

In naming Digital B-Orders there is an intentional play on words. For one it is drawing attention to our interactions through digital devices and interfaces. There is also the significance of the border in a literal and figurative sense – the order of not only nature (evoked by the floral pattern) but order imposed by boundaries affecting the movement, placement and displacement of people and communities.