
Exhibition:
New Media Architectures: Vancouver
Gene Anthony Santiago-Holt
Artwork Description:
Dreamscape Hatchlings transforms the “Heron’s Dreamscape” mural by artist Priscilla Yu, into a living nursery where the urban facade gives birth to new winged life. By way of a browser‐based WebAR platform, visitors discover and hatch eggs across the mural, setting graphic herons in flight. This simple three‐stage interaction (appearance, hatching, flight) embodies the core themes of “Heron’s Dreamscape”: the quiet, cyclical rhythms of non‐human life that persist inside a metropolis, and the invitation to “embrace a slower pace to notice the nature that surrounds our urban spaces.” Visitors’ interactions with the augmented mural reframe the mural as a breathable habitat, dissolving the boundary between painted illusion and living ecosystem. The tactile pleasure of hatching overlays an ethic of guardianship, every egg placed is a quiet bond to notice and nurture the overlooked wildlife that shares our skyline.