Aubrey Birdwell

 Flood the Night presents a moon-like sphere appearing to drift in and out of view as clouded layers of typography sweep across its surface. A stream of ASCII characters moves laterally through the circle with the rhythm of wind or television static, while a field of aurora-like color seeps downward behind it. The two layers interfere with each other in real time; the result resembles a celestial body being covered and uncovered, caught between atmospheric veils and coded illumination.

The installation continues Birdwell’s investigation into text as material and natural phenomena as metaphor. By combining a masked video field with procedural typography, Flood the Night stages a quiet collision between mechanical systems and natural motion. The sphere remains on the edge of disappearance, evading stability. The work imagines a world where language behaves like cloud cover and light behaves like a tide, each one overwhelming and dissolving the other.