Lena Ruth

Participants were asked to enter a pitch black room one at a time with only a flashlight. In the room there was a sound installation both encircling and coming from a softly breathing creature made of fiber and clay. The flashlight, changeable upon your individual hand, adapted the experience. The creature could feel alert, dangerous, gentle, or scared, depending on the lighting and the way the shadows stretched across the floor. You have agreed to be an adventurer, a detective on the case. The moment of meeting becomes a “who’s afraid of who?” in a magnified example of a monster myth, bats and their relationship to disease, and nature as whole.