Lilium is a post-digital cine-symphonic mural that re-imagines urban regeneration by drawing citizens into a laneway transformed into a spatial soundscape and a cinematic mural that depicts a supernatural world inhabited by playful and energetic hybrid species. Overlooked cycles of life and death are expressed through disparate temporalities – generative sound and photographic compositions of human figures and decaying flora emerge, bloom, procreate, decay, and re-incarnate.

Lilium offers an aesthetic reflection on the nature of decay and architecture of the city to prompt the questioning of natural life cycles. A dialogic exchange between citizens, place, space and events is fused into an experience of the mind to open a possibility for existence through ourselves and our changed perceptions of being that might free the imagination from the city's functional and technical limitations. The existential image and soundscape are explored through Pallasmaa's 'lived space' – integrated with imagination, thoughts, emotions, dreams, the unconscious, memories of the past, and present experiences. According to Juhani Pallasmaa, the structures of music and cinema can be used to express the essence of temporal and spatial experience. Pallasmaa argued for dialectical combinations of external and inner mental space rather than independent boundaries of physics and time.

I first created the imagery of these lilies for Underworld's single Bird 1 – for their 30th Anniversary album album Barking, before remixing it for Lilium.

Lilium was exhibited in the inaugural Big City Lights Festival in July 2022. The immersive ambisonic soundscape was created by John Furguson and Andrew R. Brown.

A documentary about this project was peer reviewed by AMPS 2023 (Architecture Media Politics Society), a conference that foregrounds the intersection of History, Art, Design, Architecture and Film. The documentary won the AMPS YouTube Channel Award 2022 for excellence in scholarship and has been permanently archived on the AMPS Academic YouTube channel, which can be seen here.