projection mapped video, sound, tengucho ~ kozo~ mulberry paper
2025
This installation at the Cameron Art Museum gathers recordings from across North Carolina’s watershed—from mountain headwaters to the Cape Fear River—and translates them into a shifting grid of moving images and sound. This project originates from the Biota performance series and a summer 2023 retreat with Janice Lancaster and Kimathi Moore. Here, Gene Felice uses projection mapping and layered audio to create an immersive environment of visual and sonic rhythms that surround visitors with the patterns of water and land, offering new ways to experience the state’s varied ecosystems. “I want to find ways to open doors and encourage environmental learning through curiosity and empathy,” he explains.
Flowing eastward from the Appalachian highlands through the braided rivers and streams of the Piedmont into the tidal flats of the coastal plane, Beyond the Fall Line explores the flow of water as a continuous thread unraveling across North Carolina’s shifting landscapes. Light, air, and projected imagery drift across flowing sheets of mulberry paper, while ambient sounds transform the museum’s threshold into a living map of the state’s watersheds. Each meander becomes a gesture of connection — between regions, ecologies, and timescales — tracing the long conversation from mountains to sea. Beyond the Fall Line invites us to listen to water’s memory, to follow its turning lines, and to consider how all flows eventually converge.
