(c)sensorial: an absence of, 2017
Single Channel Video and Sound 3:39 min
Recycled metal chair 83 x 34 cm
Ink on Acrylic Glass 41 x 51 cm
Single Channel Video and Sound 3:39 min
Recycled metal chair 83 x 34 cm
Ink on Acrylic Glass 41 x 51 cm
When washed over by unexpected, retrospective grief, even with a degree of preparedness, one’s conflicted and often tortured dissonance of emotions is unpalatable. This piece aims to unpack the elements of hearing through the elusive pain of navigating loss: clearing the sounds (finding a secret place), engaging the ear’s alignment for active listening (breaths, groans, tears, murmurs), and identifying censorial tendencies on three levels (self, other, subconscious) portrayed through three mediums (sound, video, found object). Building on the poetry of Psalm 102, the devotional “My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald Chambers, and infusing intuitive inquiry as research methods, the questions remain, is the absence of sound silence? And what does silence mean to you?
