Keepsake

Keepsake is an interactive installation by Clara Santamaria and Jonathan Sparks that evokes the way our brains remember and learn. The structure, which spans the width of a hallway at the Offit Gallery in Teacher's College; was influenced by the look and feel of neurons. It is comprised of 400+ linear feet of acrylic tubes, each containing programmable LED lights. The buttons, when pressed, trigger animated paths through the web-like sculpture, representing the neural pathways in which our memories are stored and retrieved.