- Linda Hollier
Updated: Dec 3, 2025
Recently, I have begun exploring the use of AI as a creative assistant in the development of 3D models for augmented reality. This feels like a natural extension of my iPhoneart practice - one that allows familiar themes of presence, perception, and embodiment to move into new spatial territory. By engaging with AI tools, I am opening my work to fresh forms of collaboration and experimentation, translating intuitive image-making into sculptural, immersive experiences that can exist within the viewer’s own environment.
Inspired by the Inuit story of Sedna, Mother of the Sea, the above work whispers a simple truth: when we honour the ocean, the ocean can continue to nourish life.
In Sedna’s Echo, photographed above on the prairies in Alberta, Canada, I continue to explore how the digital can become a vessel for presence and reflection. The figure, calm and poised, holding a staff as a marine creature rests at her feet, embodies both strength and guardianship. She stands as a symbol of our relationship with the living ocean and of the balance between human awareness and the natural world.
Presented in augmented reality, Sedna’s Echo exists only when brought into being by the viewer. Appearing within their own surroundings, she transforms ordinary space into a moment of quiet encounter. This act of placement echoes my ongoing interest in thresholds - between the physical and the virtual, the visible and the invisible - and affirms my belief that art can awaken a deeper sense of connection wherever it appears.
Sedna’s Echo embodies the coexistence of movement and stillness, presence and flux. The figure stands grounded and composed, holding her staff as a marine animal rests calmly at her feet. This stillness is intentional - it acts as an anchor, a moment of pause that invites contemplation rather than urgency.
At the same time, movement is implied rather than enacted. The ocean lives in suggestion: in the symbolism of the figure, in the animal presence, and in the medium of augmented reality itself. Though the body remains still, the surrounding digital space is in constant flux - light shifts, environments change, and the work is re-situated each time a viewer encounters it in a new location.
Similarly, presence and flux operate simultaneously. Sedna’s Echo is fully present only in the moment it is summoned into a viewer’s physical space through AR. Yet its context is never fixed; it adapts to each environment, each perspective, each act of witnessing. In this way, the work reflects a core belief in my practice: that stillness does not negate movement, and presence does not resist change. Instead, they coexist as states of heightened awareness.
Sedna’s Echo will be presented at Miami Art Week as part of Code Blue, an exhibition curated by Balanced Forces that brings artists together around themes of ocean awareness and environmental responsibility. The project also marks my first participation in a collective NFT drop, another unfamiliar yet compelling framework through which the work can live and circulate. Entering these spaces feels aligned with my interest in expansion and exchange, allowing the work to move beyond traditional formats while remaining rooted in contemplation, care, and connection.
The exhibition will take place on Miami Beach at the Miami South Beach Boardwalk in front of the Sagamore Hotel from December 4th-6th, 2025.
- Linda Hollier
Visions of a Sustainable Future, presented by Modular Commons, is an open-air Augmented Reality exhibition that maps creative solutions for a just, regenerative tomorrow across the public spaces of COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. Using a walkable AR map and a “living library” of projects - from artwork and architecture to community campaigns - the project brings imaginative, site-anchored interventions into dialogue with delegates and the wider public, inviting visitors to pause, explore practical ideas, and imagine how inner and collective shifts can shape a resilient future.
At the heart of the the opening speech by the president of Brazil at the Leaders’ Summit, was the Brazilian notion of Mutirāo, a spirit of collective effort and solidarity. This shared purpose, he said, can bridge divides, inspire cooperation and drive progress where it is most needed.
My artwork Transformation will be shown at the exhibition. It is a contemplative artwork that invites a quiet inner shift as the seed of wider collective change.
The piece shows two human figures in transition, partially dissolving into or emerging from a textured field. Their edges are porous and fluid, neither fully formed nor fully gone. The abstract lines and constellated markings across their bodies suggest energetic pathways, connections forming or reconfiguring and a shift in identity, perception, or state of being.
The muted, earthy-grey background evokes liminality - a space between worlds, neither past nor future. Subtle hints of turquoise, red, and light infusions appear like life force or signals of awakening within the figures. The lack of sharp boundaries feels like the dissolving of an old self-pattern and the emergence of a new one.
At a moment when COP30 calls for implementation and systemic transitions, this work offers a gentle yet essential reminder: the futures we build externally are shaped by the consciousness we cultivate within.
The piece unfolds through Augmented Reality as an intimate moment of activation, encouraging viewers to pause, listen inwardly, and sense an opening towards greater clarity and connection.
Transformation proposes that sustainable futures emerge when personal awareness evolves into collective resonance. As individuals shift towards empathy, presence, and a renewed relationship with the Earth, the ground for collaborative, regenerative systems can take root. Within the intensity of COP30, the work offers a reflective space where inner change and collective transformation meet - inviting both to unfold.
Through Augmented Reality, the viewer is gently drawn into this process, suggesting that personal awakening can inspire collective transformation and more sustainable ways of relating to each other and the Earth.
The exhibition runs from November 10 - 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil.