ART EXHIBITION

Second Year | 4 Weeks | Individual

The Drip Never Stops is an art exhibition designed to evoke strong emotion in viewers and in return create action. Centralized around the crucial and very widely known issue of climate change, the exhibit offers an impactful and thought provoking experience by imposing a psychological sense of anticipation and anxiety. Located in the Virginia Tech Armory building downtown, this exhibition is vastly accessible to many different types of audience.

Tolerance Towards Inaction

The Mission

To inspire viewers to react and take action towards relieving climate change and the impact we, as humans, have on the earth. The goal is not to bring awareness but to evoke emotion and encourage action in the viewers by creating a space where the sound of passing time is inescapable.

The exhibition creates tension in the viewers by producing a sense of urgency with the large scale climate clock that is always within sight of the observers. With every passing ten seconds a singular drop is released to fall into the center display. The carafe is designed to hold every drop until the clock reaches zero, and our estimated time until global warming conditions become too severe for human life to be maintained on earth.

Acoustical control is a very crucial element in the design of the exhibition space. A domed ceiling plane is installed to aid in the spread of sound produced by the center display. In turn, the leftover ceiling plane influenced the shaping of the exhibition area to create a harmonious flow throughout the space.

Viewers can move through impactful artist renditions of the future effects of climate change while always having the passage of time ever-present in their minds. Low levels of disclosure allow the compact space to feel more freeing, while never allowing viewers to fully escape the sight of the central display.