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Sarah Meyohas — Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #6
Sarah Meyohas

Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #6

2017

A cascade of rose petals fills the virtual space of Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #6, immersing the viewer in a sensory environment that blurs the boundary between the physical and the digital. Created in 2017, this work originated from one of Sarah Meyohas's most ambitious performances, in which hundreds of workers at a former AT&T facility in St. Louis plucked petals from roses and fed them into a data capture system, translating organic labor into digital information. The resulting dataset became the raw material for an immersive VR landscape, where participants move through swirling, gravity-defiant petals rendered in exquisite detail. The work collapses distinctions between human effort, natural material, and technological abstraction, asking what it means to convert lived experience into data. Meyohas has positioned herself at the forefront of artists interrogating capitalism, labor, and the aesthetics of emerging technology. This particular edition carries the artist's signature and represents a rare opportunity to acquire a discrete, authenticated digital file from a body of work that has been exhibited internationally and received significant critical attention. The VR medium is not incidental here but central to the conceptual argument, as the collector does not simply view the piece but enters it, becoming briefly complicit in the same act of transformation that defined its making. The work sits comfortably alongside major collections focused on post-internet and technology-driven practice, and its 2017 date places it at a pivotal moment in both Meyohas's career and the broader conversation around digital art as a collectible medium.

Medium
Digital Virtual Reality File
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Sarah Meyohas, Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #6, 2017

A cascade of rose petals fills the virtual space of Cloud of Petals Interactive VR Experience #6, immersing the viewer in a sensory environment that blurs the boundary between the physical and the digital. Created in 2017, this work originated from one of Sarah Meyohas's most ambitious performances, in which hundreds of workers at a former AT&T facility in St. Louis plucked petals from roses and fed them into a data capture system, translating organic labor into digital information. The resulting dataset became the raw material for an immersive VR landscape, where participants move through swirling, gravity-defiant petals rendered in exquisite detail. The work collapses distinctions between human effort, natural material, and technological abstraction, asking what it means to convert lived experience into data. Meyohas has positioned herself at the forefront of artists interrogating capitalism, labor, and the aesthetics of emerging technology. This particular edition carries the artist's signature and represents a rare opportunity to acquire a discrete, authenticated digital file from a body of work that has been exhibited internationally and received significant critical attention. The VR medium is not incidental here but central to the conceptual argument, as the collector does not simply view the piece but enters it, becoming briefly complicit in the same act of transformation that defined its making. The work sits comfortably alongside major collections focused on post-internet and technology-driven practice, and its 2017 date places it at a pivotal moment in both Meyohas's career and the broader conversation around digital art as a collectible medium.

Medium
Digital Virtual Reality File
Year
2017
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
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