Exhibit Q (CSI-Crime Scene Insects)

Exhibit Q was a 5 year North American Tour culminating in a display at the Smithsonian Institute. The exhibit is a portable multi-piece educational tool that will feature both static and interactive learning tools. The traveling exhibit has a unique set of design criteria that becomes a driving force in the over all form and spatial read of a display system. Add to the mix a program of Forensic Entomology, the science of investigating insect activities as they interact with the legal system, and a fascinating texture of presentation is born.

Formally the exhibit can be perceived as a vast forest of information with nine different thematic areas related to the unique subjects within Forensic Entomology. Each area contains specific display items played out to give the viewer a greater understanding of the science. The nine blocks of interest of composed of wall segments that become partially or fully eroded based on the density of display information cased within the wall. These walls are constructed on 117 individual layers of plywood stacked vertically to produce the overall texture of the exhibit. An intimate viewing situation is created as visitors move in and out of the blocks, roaming from one area to the next, creating their own personal definition of Forensic Entomology. Several of the areas contain customized lampshades fashioned after insect wings, which loom over long integrated benches providing areas of rest within the exhibit encounter.