The project consists of a wooden sculpture depicting a spiralling plantlike humanoid emerging from a seedcase.

A cupped hand carrying a glass ball flashes four colours, red, blue, green and yellow at a rate of 2 a second. Each colour represents one of the four bases that make up the human genome.

The rear hand holds a photovoltaic cell that powers the battery for the flashing glass ball.

The trigger turning the light on and off, and determining which colour will flash, consists of a radio receiver positioned in the base of the figure.

The transmitter triggering the flash is controlled by a computer programme reading a genetic sequence. The figure is thus accurately signalling the whole human genome.

The 8' tall ash figure is carved in a double helix with one of the helix carrying a random arrangement of the four letters that make up the genetic sequence ATCG.