Inkling is an interactive video installation and workshop where kids and adults will learn how to make inkblot prints then bring them to life with a live musical score.

German Poet-Doctor Justinus Kerners created the first book of blotograms (Kleksographien, 1857) based on unintentional spills on paper, which he called “daguerreotypes of the invisible world.” The form evolved into a popular children’s parlor game played by the likes of Carl Jung and Hermann Rorschach, who later invented the inkblot test. 

When participants finish their prints, they enter the next room to animate their creations and watch them projected, accompanied by a live-improvised ambient score.