Violent Transformation Visual Poem
Personal Project A visual poem exploring growth as a cycle of blooming, decay, and becoming.
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problem
Growth is often framed as linear, gentle, and progressive. This project emerged from resisting that narrative—questioning why transformation is rarely allowed to be uncomfortable, violent, or destabilizing. The challenge was to represent growth as a simultaneous act of blooming and withering, without relying on literal storytelling. The work needed to exist between image, sound, and language—allowing emotion, rhythm, and distortion to carry meaning where explanation would fail.
solution
A Violent Transformation is a personal audiovisual experiment combining video, photography, sound, and poetry. I photographed orchids—symbols of beauty, fragility, and persistence—and processed them through TouchDesigner, where the visuals become audio-reactive, distorting and mutating in response to sound. The piece layers these reactive images with a spoken recording of my own poem and music, creating a feedback loop between voice, image, and signal. TouchDesigner functions not as an effects tool, but as a living system—allowing the flowers to fracture, pulse, and dissolve as the poem unfolds.
Watch the video series on Instagram.
This work treats transformation as something physical. Petals stretch, collapse, and reassemble; sound pushes the image beyond recognition. By allowing the visuals to respond directly to voice and music, the piece exposes growth as unstable—beautiful and destructive at once.
The orchids never remain intact. They echo the body: changing under pressure, reacting to vibration, resisting permanence. What emerges is not a conclusion, but a moment suspended between becoming and loss—a reminder that growth is not always quiet, and never neutral.
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