Supersized Soma Scroll
TACTILE . Malleable . Rythmic . PORTABLE
Haptic & Kinaesthetic Sculpture Meets Embodied Practice
Made by Live Particle
Our Supersize Soma Scroll was created for the Children’s Sensorium exhibition at the Castlemaine Art Museum July 2024. For sometime we had wanted to upscale our Soma Kit and create a means to transport all the tools. So began a wonderful process of supersizing our objects and turning the case into a beautiful haptic kinaesthetic tool in it’s own right.
You can roll the scroll, tuck things in, climb inside, and create a composition with all our objects. The Scroll’s tactility, malleability, scale, rhythm and patterns, for us, reference the somatosensory system - a profoundly important physiological aspect of relational life.
The Scroll is used in community workshops and education spaces to invite lush tactile experiences, dynamic movement play, pattern & sculpture making, physiological inquiry and to visually depict ecosomatic concepts and fundamental .