what is here, all at once

Arduino, LED strip lights, IBM Watson Tone Analyzer API, acrylic tubes

What is here, all at once depicts a relationship. Taking three years of conversations between two people, analyzing the emotional composition associated with each. Yellow means joy; red means anger; blue means sadness; and then there is everything in between. The piece will perpetually cycle between these messages: preserving, animating, and translating out of love, nostalgia, and tenderness. Though the relationship may end, and those two people may drift; at least within the confines of this light and these tubes, it will remain. Perhaps one day it will only be what was here once, but in this moment it's what is here, all at once.