Meditation on a Seagrass Meadow: A particle ecology of Corio Bay’s blue carbon habitats is a digital artwork that translates this ecology into moving light. Imagery gathered from the bay, including diatoms, seagrass blades, sea cucumbers and fiddler rays, is dissolved into abstract particle systems, then driven by ecological data describing the bay’s condition and recovery over the past 15 years.
Beneath the surface of Corio Bay lies one of the most quietly consequential ecosystems in Victoria. Seagrass meadows shelter fiddler rays and sea cucumbers, hold sediment in place, and draw down carbon at rates that outpace terrestrial forests. They form a key part of the global ‘blue carbon’ stores and nature-based climate action.
As it shifts, drifts and evolves across the large-scale Shorts Place Projection, it creates space for slow attention to the living water it represents.
Presented as part of the Third Nature commission, the work considers how natural systems and technological innovation increasingly intersect, influence and reshape one another.
