Installation view, Kayamanan ng Pilipinas (Treasures of the Philippines-Dipidio Mines), 2025-26, single-channel video 4K, CPU component, coding, weather API, LED screen. Photo by Christian Capurro.


Kayamanan ng Pilipinas (Treasures of the Philippines) is a digital movie that unfolds as a new version of an earlier piece with the same title. Drawing from the Philippine archipelago's vast flora, Tumala constructs a moving landscape in which endemic plants are modelled, animated and choreographed within a generative system. The work is driven by real-time weather information - temperature, humidity, wind patterns and shifting atmospheric pressure - which modulates colour, luminosity, and the speed of transformation and density of visual layers. As the climate in Kasibu, Nueva Ecija (Dipidio Mines) fluctuates, the digital plants respond, expanding, contracting, pulsing or dimming in subtle shifts that link code, ecology and time. This interplay between plant imagery and atmospheric data echoes Tumalas broader practice, in which technology becomes a tool to sense, record and reimagine ecological conditions. By allowing weather to literally shape the artwork, Tumala positions nature not simply as subject but as co-author, reminding us how deeply our environments - physical and digital - are interwoven with the forces that sustain or endanger them. 








Video Still, Day time, Night time, Raining




Process




Site of weather data and plants selection: Dipidio Mines, Kasibu, Nueva Ecija 


Weather data Parameters, Visual Crossing Weather API



Touchdesigner nodes, flow chart and commands






Presented at:

A velvet ant, a flower and a bird
Curated by Chus Martinez
Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
19 Feb – 6 June 2026


Press


Production credits:
Shara Francisco, programming assistant
Jarrett Pinto, 3D asset designer
Ryle Russel, research assistant
Frankie Lalunio, coding assistant
Plants information and coordinates from philippineplants.org