"After Nature Had Drawn a Few Breaths" reclaims imposing concrete walls for surrounding nature through environmentally inspired projections and lighting. Designed to encourage unique experiences with every viewing, the colorful pairings of visual media brightened the evenings of those passing between Cornell University's Central Campus and College Town.
Lighting followed the tones of natural processes: the swaying of leaves, beating of butterfly wings, sunset to sunrise, and cycles of water and growth to fire. Video footage followed the changing seasons, using wind and river currents to animate its movement. While forces on land and in water played cinematographer for the lower channels, a third semi-narrative projection presented collected photographs, poetry, and short video reflections on regional ecological phenomena and environmentalist action for the viewer's interpretation.
For further details, please see this review by Stephen Yang for the Cornell Daily Sun:
https://cornellsun.com/2021/04/21/yang-what-is-that-outside-of-schwartz/