A Worm’s Eye View

A WORM'S EYE VIEW
June 20 - August 22, 2024

The David Brower Center invites you to experience A Worm's Eye View, an immersive sound and video installation by nationally recognized video projection artist Adam Larsen. Originally commissioned with autistic audiences in mind for the Common Senses Festival (2022), A Worm’s Eye View celebrates the subtle intricacies of our surroundings. Rather than foregrounding the big picture or a "bird's eye view," this exhibition instead explores the details that make up the whole, such as the distinct grass blades that comprise a field.

A Worm’s Eye View creates an opportunity to slow down and observe the details of the living world that surrounds us, even in places we typically overlook. Here in busy Downtown Berkeley, we only need to take a moment to look in order to contemplate a blade of grass or a falling leaf. This installation embraces meditative, curious, and varied perspectives of the natural world, which can lead us to appreciate it and reflect on our place in it. By magnifying the sights that are so familiar to us to a floor-to-ceiling scale, A Worm’s Eye View transforms them and compels us to view them with new eyes. This exhibition marks the first use of the Brower Center’s new projection system, which transforms the Hazel Wolf Gallery with immersive, floor-to-ceiling visuals.

This program is made possible through the generous funding of an anonymous donor at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta