Installation

HeART Pod

bookable

An anatomical heart of salvaged steel, mesh and glowing filament that floats at eye level. Press the stethoscope to your chest and it beats with your heartbeat.

Gallery

Lead artist Tif! Shen beside the HeART Pod in the workshop: a suspended metal anatomical heart outlined in glowing red light

Specs

Footprint ~5 ft tall heart; ~8 ft tall on its stand. / Footprint about 6 x 6 ft.

Weight ~200 lb (est.)

Power Low-voltage LED, battery or 120V

Addressable LED on its own Pixelblaze/Teensy controller.

Transport Fits a cube van. / Quoted per event.

Container fit Fits a 20 ft container

Install Small crew, under an hour

Machinery None for the stand. / A lift or rigging crew if you hang it.

Storage Crated, about 5 x 5 x 6 ft.

Home base Squamish, BC

Engineering Not engineer reviewed

Insurance Artist's own liability certificate, confirmed per event. / Certificate naming your event on request.

Site A rated rigging point, or level ground

Hangs from a rigging point rated for the load, or sits on its freestanding stand. Put it where people can get close.

An anatomical heart built from salvaged steel, mesh and gears, wrapped in glowing filament and suspended so it floats at eye level. A stethoscope hangs from its centre. Press it to your chest and the heart is built to pick up your pulse: the lights inside and out thump in time with you, so a stranger's heartbeat becomes something the whole room can see.

Nurses and scientists who've seen it have remarked on how anatomically right it is, down to the SA node, the heart's own pacemaker, which glows blue-white. The idea behind it is the body as community. A heartbeat is private, and here everyone can see it.

Lead artist Tif! Shen built it with a team of makers in the Create Public Art program at Create Makerspace in Squamish in 2026, with interactive lighting by Jordan Balanko. It toured its first summer as the heart of the Orcar, hanging from the spine inside the belly of the whale, and stood on its own at the program's showcase. Hang it over a dancefloor or a ceremony, or stand it on its hand-shaped stand.

Request to book

Bring HeART Pod to your event

Nothing is held until we confirm your dates.