Terrain as Instrument asks what it means to touch a landscape you cannot reach. Five locations along Robert Pirsig's motorcycle route — plains, mountain, coast — are reconstructed as 3D Gaussian Splat terrain and rendered onto organza. A visitor's proximity to the screen determines what they see: far away, the terrain dissolves into scattered particles; close, it coalesces into form. Sound moves with them. The body is the instrument.
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