Rain

Every day is just one more day, one more baby, one more car, one more house, one more cup, one more bottle.

Empty bottles, cups, plastic containers just become one more layer of the noise of unfriendly cities. Our consumption keeps growing and helps the mountain grow more and more. Almost every day we’ll buy something, could be lunch, water, coffee, snacks or sodas, and most end up in landfills. We are too busy to stop and think about recycling, reusing or preparing our coffees and lunches.

This piece is a computer-generated animation representing how many bottles of water, coffee, and soda cups we consume and waste every day. Bottles and cups start falling as if they rained. These cups and bottles are not only life-sized, but their behavior is exceptionally life-like in the way they fall and bounce, giving the spectator the feeling of literally being under a shower of bottles and cups. When the screen filled up, the viewer immersed in an overwhelming sensation of being covered in a huge mountain of bottles and cups.

This piece titled “Rain” was initially designed for and presented at the IAC screen in NYC, one of the world’s biggest rear projection screens at 120′ by 12′. The original piece consists of approximately 9,000 life-size CGI bottles.

This installation has been shown and projected in different galleries and outdoor screens in Boston, such as the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.