An octopus, a glass maze, and poetry that swims through flesh.
Soft arms and rigid tunnels, bendable limbs and transparent shapes, words that speak and languages that dance. In his visually striking video Haemocyanin, artist Tuomas A. Laitinen observes how an octopus interacts with a glass structure, entering its folds, exploring its interstices, inhabiting its transparent mass while having its body traversed by dynamic flows of letters and hieroglyphs.
Cinematography
Glass refracting cephalopod flesh into living stained glass.
Visual Effects
Text flowing through tentacles like ink through water.
Director
Tuomas A. Laitinen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Haemocyanin is literally what makes octopus blood blue — copper-based, alien to our iron. The title is doing WORK.
Laitinen trained as a glassblower before becoming a media artist; every curve here is hand-wrought obsession meeting digital projection.
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