Auto Immune Response: Weaving the Sacred Mountains (East, South, West, North)

Will Wilson’s art blends a Navajo worldview with his thoughts on social and environmental issues. By integrating functional QR codes into four beaded panels, Wilson converts a two dimensional art form into a multi sensory, engaging experience. Each code, when scanned, opens a different video showing Wilson’s Auto Immune Response protagonist in one of the Navajo people’s four sacred landscapes. You can view these videos here.

“The work has focused on a post-apocalyptic Navajo man’s journey through an uninhabited landscape. The character in the [videos] is searching for answers. Where has everyone gone? What has occurred to transform the familiar and strange landscape that he wanders? Why has the land become toxic to him? How will he respond, survive, reconnect to the Earth?” —Will Wilson