There is a vision shared amongst synthetic biologists which hopes that one day our city streets will be lit by genetically engineered trees, an ecological alternative to street lamps and electricity.



A curiosity in to marine life lead me to the exploration of bioluminescence, a majestic form of communication found across our planet. Could hacking this ancient language of light offer us new sustainable applications for day to day life?

To explore this idea, I embraced vibrational frequancies as a medium. Wave phenomena shows us how sound can physically shape form, I used this knowledge to stimulate micro algae in to a generative state of bio-luminesce.