Mother, may I?

For three day festival Splore 2021, Shades Arcade created a giant, interactive, Festival themed version of the Magic 8 ball.  

Splore Festival
February 2020
Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland, New Zealand

Splorers are invited to stand on a circle of canvas on the ground, approximately 1 metre radius. The canvas has instructions written on it; “When the light shines on you, ask Mother your question”. A spotlight suspended in waterproof globe overhead shines down on the Splorer. It then swivels, and its light dances, searchlike, across the landscape around until it falls on a globe, also suspended. The splorer reads the answer to their question on this globe: “As I see it, yes.”