Photos by Morgan Evans.

 

 

Sensory Site is a permanent installation at The Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, GA, USA.

 

In Sensory Site, delicate hair strands are given a monumental presence. Ten identical silver strands, each rising 9 feet from the ground, form a precise grid. Their metallic sheen suggests both the organic and the artificial - like traces of aging, yet eerily synthetic, as if belonging to a body beyond the human. Set against a desaturated gravel landscape, they seem to exist in an in-between space: neither fully biological nor fully machine, neither past nor future, but something liminal.

 

The installation explores the body’s largest sensory organ - the skin - as our primary interface with the world. Through touch, we experience the physicality of existence. Yet in an increasingly digital era, our engagement with the world is mediated through screens, reducing physical contact to mere fingertips. What happens when the body’s largest organ is left unstimulated? What becomes of our sensory experience in a post-biological future?

 

By enlarging hair to architectural proportions, Sensory Site transforms the earth itself into a living, feeling surface—an extension of human sensation into the landscape. Walking through the installation, the viewer is momentarily made small, like an insect traversing the skin of a larger organism. This shift in scale reminds us of our fragility within vast systems - both biological and technological.

 

Sensory Site is a meditation on the evolving relationship between the human body and its environment. It is both a call to reconnect with our sensory capacities and a glimpse into a world where sensing, and perhaps even being, takes on new, unfamiliar forms.