Visitors to Regent’s Park encountered a hybrid body without a head which appeared to be creeping and sliding across the grass. Heaney describes the creature as a quantum cyborg or ‘Q-borg’. 

An amalgamation of bodies, it combines queered references to sculptural depictions from antiquity such as the Laocoön group, and the Paleolithic fertility figure Venus of Willendorf. 

Biomorphic blue flesh oozes from the industrial chamber of a machine, and metallic tentacles which reference the gold plating in real present-day quantum computers writhe and entangle the breathing and pulsating Q-borg. 

The reflective and transparent surfaces of the sculpture physically connect the audience and the object to the surrounding environment.

Visitors were also invited to interact with two 360 degree AR experiences with sound using their own smartphones or tablets, accessed via QR codes on two additional sculptural forms. 

These digitally animated scenes developed from Ent- overlay the physical sculpture and the park environment, further transporting the viewer inside an entangled quantum space populated by Heaney’s take on  Bosch’s medieval monsters and fantastical floating structures.  

To produce the AR experiences, Heaney uses her self-written quantum computing code to manipulate and animate her own watercolour paintings.

The AR experiences highlight the inherent non-binary logic of quantum, which Heaney argues queers a classical Newtonian model of the world.