You Can Call on Beauty A homage to Adrienne Rich and her poem Calle Visión, a poet whose words gave me great strength and insight during the pandemic.
No Man’s Knowledge The progressive breaking down and letting go of John Locke’s words and a metaphor for refusing anthropocentric views on knowledge.
When You Cut Down a Tree You Destroy a Community Reflecting on how the destruction of one tree, one individual, has ramifications and implications throughout a community of trees, of people, of interconnected systems.
The Consequences of my Actions John Locke interrupted by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Reflecting on how John Locke’s ideas propose that the main motivation behind the formulation of society is to protect private property. Whereas Thich Nhat Hanh offers another way of thinking around true belongings and how this relates to our everyday actions and their consequences.
4’32’’ Attuning To The Universe Working with John Cage’s 4’33’’, this slightly shifted number references the notion that the universe is based on sacred geometries which resonate at 432 hz instead of today’s adjusted tuning based on 440 hz. This is a gesture for us to rethink what we attune ourselves to today and to decenter the self in order to listen.
Fine-Tuning Video Score. I wondered what a score in time might mean. This is listening to the shadows of the plants outside my studio moving in time. Can we attune to this kind of movement? This kind of time?