Shadowscapes (Wilderness Within) is a generative, interactive four channel sound installation, where artist Libby Heaney has created a self-playing instrument from digital images of three JMW Turner paintings and data from quantum entanglement (from IBM’s publicly available quantum computers).

Heaney is interested in the hidden depths of the Turner paintings and herself, treating them both as psychological landscapes via Jung’s concept of shadow: the parts of us we unconsciously deem unacceptable so therefore repress.

Since the work is a generative instrument it can be adapted to play other paintings and even become a live instrument which Heaney would like to DJ.