LIT FROM WITHIN (2008-Ongoing) - Ryan Wolfe

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(Image Courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery)

In a sun-less room, plants thrive using light emanating from within their own living tissue. Technological and biological merge to create a unique hybrid living system which inverts the fundamental biological relationship between inside and outside. Clusters of Equisetum Hyemale (Common Horsetail) surgically-embedded with LEDs radiate the equivalent of internal sunshine, enabling photosynthesis in darkness. Sunrise and sunset programmatically occur from within each plant, allowing viewers to navigate a field of organisms flourishing off their own internal sun cycle.

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, Rob Maguire

I wonder if the plants are synced with the same "sunrise" and "sunset" times, and if not, what the biological effects are of some plants emanating light while others are "sleeping".