New Work

Listening: Transmit, Receive, Connect is a large-scale, three part installation that posits aspects of sound, hearing, interpretation and the organic and mechanical forms that give us a mysterious range from cacophony to silence.

I use materials integral to these ideas:  copper plates used for hand-pulled printmaking are re-fashioned as objects themselves; player piano scrolls in which the holes (absence) indicate the presence of sound are surfaces for printing and drawing; and copper and plastic tubes, used in hearing aids, take on new meanings in this installation work. I suggest lingering traces and infinite regressions of language spoken, heard and visually encoded by actively deploying the shadows cast from the works.

Transmit, the first part of the Listening Installation, is a matrix of over 800 feet ofetched, inked and waxed copper tubes of various lengths. Suspended on monofilament from heights of eight to ten feet high, Transmit is arranged in three separate “pages” to evoke passages of text, music stanzas, runes, sound-making instruments, etc. Each pipe is intricately inscribed with glyphs, minute patterns, and almost indecipherable words (repeating the phrases “one last question,” “what you already know” and “please shout”—all language that has appeared in previous work).