Sand is omnipresent and essential to modern architecture as the primary component of concrete and glass. Silica sand also forms the backbone of our digital infrastructure, enabling global data transmission through fiber optic cables. The installation Silica Scripts explores the communicative and constructive properties of sand by translating an abstracted construction, represented as digital vectors, onto two mediums: sand and paper.

While paper and pen are traditional tools for drafting construction plans, sand is typically transformed into other materials. But what if sand itself served as a blueprint for construction? A feedback loop captures an image of the sand drawing, feeding it into an outline-recognition algorithm that dictates the creation of new lines. In this process, the materiality of the sand and the surrounding light become active parameters in reproducing the abstract concept of a structure, while paper merely records the evolving process. Here, the conventional roles of paper and sand are reversed.

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