Sophia Wolfe is animating a real plant growing in the Santa Monica hills. Silver armature wire is wrapped around the plant's branches. This photo was taken by Christopher Powers.
Sophia Wolfe is a Southern California artist whose practice spans land art, animation, narrative film, and installation, currently pursuing her MFA in Expanded Animation” Research + Practice at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She researches the intersection of materiality, time, dreams, and sentience through the act of unconventional animation techniques, guided by interests in remote viewing, lucid dreaming, and non-human phenomenology. Her exploration of the illusion of life extends into her freelance work, from creating practical special effects for movies and theater to developing Sophia the Robot's body language. Sophia’s body of work has exhibited at Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA; Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA; Alt Projects, Los Angeles, CA; and SoMad, New York, NY.