Medium: powdered charcoal; crushed marble; powdered graphite; diamond dust; crushed egg shells; stream water from the Dawn Falls Trail; clay from the Dawn Falls Trail stream bed; sand collected from Rodeo beach; powdered iron oxide; water from the Pacific Ocean; liquid latex; sounds of my children screaming, laughing, and singing; sounds of the Dawn Falls creek, sound of the ocean, sound of me singing
Dimensions: 5' x 3'
Price: Upon request
Description: Using natural bodies in the landscape as a metaphor for the human body, I make portraits of places using site-specific crushed minerals and flora suspended in a liquid matrix. I then use a subwoofer to feed amplified field recordings into the materials to displace them. The action of the sound on the materials imbues the work with the spirit of the place. For this particular sound skin, I was the place; this piece is a portrait of myself as landscape, a landscape of motherhood. Media used speak directly to this place: Calcium representing the milk given for five years in the form of crushed marble (strong, formed under extreme pressure) and crushed egg shells (incubators of life, fragile); carbon representing life in the forms of graphite and charcoal (soft, favorite materials for drawing) and diamond dust (hardest known natural substance); iron, another element found in breast milk in the form of powdered iron oxide; the sounds, seawater, and sand collected during an outing with my children to our favorite beach; the sounds, clay, and stream water collected during a walk with my children in my favorite forest; and sounds collected from the past 9.5 years of and with my children.
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