This art piece is an interactive installation that displays a path formed by steps, each of them containing touch and sound sensors. The path leads to a heart of transparent resin, so that, depending on the approach of the viewer, the heartbeat sounds change their pace and lighting intensity of the heart is increased or decreased. The concept behind the work built on the idea of how the heart rate accelerates exponentially when life is exposed to a clear risk.

The body’s reaction: fear, stress, anxiety, among other emotions, is an instinctive response that indicates the need to fight for your life or flee. Our bodies react involuntarily to danger via the sympathetic nervous system, one of the parts of the autonomic nervous system. Through it, several responses in different areas of the body prepare us to face from life-threatening danger to occasional situations that cause fear or anxiety. The other part is the parasympathetic nervous system, which serves opposite purposes: while the sympathetic nervous system prepares the body to confront danger, the parasympathetic nervous system relaxes.

By creating a multi sensorial experience in which the public can not only interact, but also gain control of the action, the Artist wanted to make an empirical analogy on the idea of being in constant motion with space and time. The first, space, is represented by the physical location where the installation and its different components are positioned. Secondly, time is shown through the metaphor of the heart, whose beating and shining in a certain pattern, established freely by the viewer, becomes a sort of clock that times the movement of the viewer in relation to the art piece.