Heartbeat is an interactive light sculpture composed of 151 individually suspended incandescent light bulbs that pulse in response to the heartbeat of participants connected to the installation. Hanging overhead as a floating field of light, the sculpture transforms biological rhythms into a shared visual experience of motion, intensity, and illumination.

Using real-time biometric sensing, the installation responds directly to the pulse of the participant, causing waves of light to travel through the suspended bulbs at the rhythm of their heartbeat. During performances beneath the sculpture, dancers controlled the speed, scale, and intensity of the installation through their own physical exertion and changing heart rates, creating a direct connection between movement, the body, and the surrounding environment of light.

Audience members were also invited to interact with the sculpture through a finger-clip heart rate sensor mounted nearby, allowing visitors to experience the installation as a personal and participatory system responsive to their own physiology.

Heartbeat was created for Momentum, an annual curated exhibition presented by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. The project was developed as part of a program in which selected artists received curatorial support and funding to create new large-scale works for the exhibition.