Field of Feelings:
Key Guide
Field of Feelings is a living video installation that translates the hidden rhythms of emotion into colour.
This guide breaks down the science behind the art.
Artist Statement
Field of Feelings explores the idea that home is not a fixed place but the feeling of connection and safety we carry within us. At the centre stands a tree digitally captured from Doddz's own home, grounding the work in something unique and personal. From it stretch rows of flowers, laid out like pathways, reflecting the journeys we each take to find where we belong. Their colours shift showing how inner feeling shapes the landscapes of belonging.
This ever-changing landscape responds to the artist’s own emotional and biometric data, causing the flowers to shift in hue and rhythm to immersively reflect the journey of emotions we take to find home.
The installation uses LiDAR scanning to capture a real tree from home and place it at the heart of the digital field. The flowers are mapped to a pre-recorded sequence of Doddz's emotions. These hues ripple through the rows of flowers, turning personal emotion into shared visual narrative.
Brainwaves to Colour
The EEG scan of the artist’s brain activity is segmented across frequency bands:
Gamma (30–100 Hz): high-level processing, peak awareness.
Beta (12–30 Hz): focus, problem-solving, anxiety.
Alpha (8–12 Hz): calm, relaxed.
Theta (4–8 Hz): daydreaming & memory recall.
Delta (0.5–4 Hz): deep rest, sleep.
These bands are further segmented through a custom algorithm and blended together to assign brain activity and emotion to shifting hues, creating a spectrum of feelings.
Colour Spectrum
Deep Rose flared when love, passion and connection took hold.
Camel settled in during simple, enduring states of rest.
Warm Beige surfaced in moments of safety and a sense of belonging.
Golden Yellow shone brightest during peaks of joy and energy.
Peach glowed when Doddz felt open and ready to connect.
Lilac appeared when Doddz’s mind drifted into calm reflection and daydreams.
Cobalt broke through as clarity and renewal.
Emotion to motion
The flowers never stay still. Their colours change at different speeds, echoing the strength of the artist’s brain signal.
When activity was gentle, the field lingered in one shade, fading slowly like a steady breath. When the signal grew stronger, the colours quickened, shifting rapidly as if the whole field had come alive at once.
The pace of transition mirrors the intensity of feeling, turning invisible brainwaves into a living rhythm of light.
Neuroimaging as Inspiration
The spiral positioning of the flowers echoes the way heatmaps of the brain radiate from the centre outward. Instead of showing every neuron, the field reflects the brain’s overall state, single pulse of colour.