Three Quarks for Muster Mark
A glowing installation made from recycled PET bottles, built collaboratively in a workshop setting.
Three Quarks for Muster Mark takes its name from a line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake — the same text that inspired the term "quark" in particle physics. The installation makes this playful chain of references physical: hundreds of recycled PET bottles, each backlit with an individually controlled LED, form a large glowing field.
The piece was built in a workshop format: participants collected bottles, cut them, wired them, and assembled the final structure together. The making process is as much a part of the work as the finished installation.
The lighting control system allows the field to pulse, ripple, and change colour in response to sound or time — a low-fi, high-warmth light organ.