The year is 3020. In the archaeological project in the mega-cosmopolitan Tel Aviv-Jaffa they discovered a series of objects that are similar to local plant species. Researchers believe they were created in the Postdeluvial age that began after the global flooding that occured in the thirties and fourties of the previous millenium. The objects that are estimated to be 1000 years old and made from polyamid are in an excellent state of preservation considering their age and their ability to withstand damp conditions. Researchers assume they were objects related to rituals in the site from the second Benjamin period of the previous millenium and that they are exact replicas of the Strelitzia Reginae flower, the King Nymphea and a branch of the Iris pseudacorus.
What was the purpose of these objects and for what ritual were they used? Is it possible to consider the connection between the first Tsunami that hit the area in 2031 and the later development of these plants? Can it be assumed that these flowers were part of the symbiotic relationship of the plant world in the Green Tiger epidemic?
Nymphea-X is an exercise in imagining the future and not predicting it. Through a fictional event that connects current scientific information with a series of questions that concern the past and the future and the beginning of the decoding that is speculative. This project is part of ongoing research that examines material culture of objects and materials used to produce using 3D printing technology and the way in which materials influence the perception of what is natural and what is quality.
Scanning and processing 3D models: The Computational Archaeology Laboratory, Archaeology Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
