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The Room That Preserved the Last Jump
I chose The Met’s Swiss automaton frog, created around 1820, as my starting point. Rather than redesigning the artifact itself, I imagined the world surrounding it: a private 19th-century collector’s and watchmaker’s room where the automaton has just been activated.
The central idea is a subtle rupture in time. The tiny mechanical frog has made its final jump, but for a fraction of a second, the room seems to remember its previous position. The faint temporal trace around the automaton represents that “last jump” — not as a fantasy portal, but as a quiet physical anomaly.
I built the scene in FLORA, preserving the automaton’s recognizable historical identity, delicate scale, materials, and details while constructing a believable environment around it. The antique desk, watchmaking tools, mechanical diagrams, glass cases, and warm historical lighting establish the world, while the subtle temporal echo provides the narrative twist.
The goal was to make the viewer look twice: first seeing a beautiful historical object, then realizing that something impossible has just happened.
Original artwork: The Met, Automaton, Swiss, ca. 1820.
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