A field of dried grass appears to sway in the breeze, bending in a wind that's blowing all the way from another planet.
The artwork Tele-present wind by US artist David Bowen represents the wind on Mars here on earth, using data collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
Each stem of grass is connected to a mechanical device that tilts in response to the Mars data, so gallery-goers can contemplate what life on the red planet might really be like.
"There's a lot of thought about what it might be like to live on another world, and the mystery of what's happening over there," he said.
The artwork is on show in a new exhibition titled EMERGENCE[Y] at the University of Melbourne's Science Gallery, which asks visitors to think about survival and adaptation during an era of planetary transformation on earth.
