About

My art offers spaces for deep listening that survey the more-than-human perspectives on the world we cohabit. I create meditative explorations of natural phenomena that occur beyond our perception. The slow, imperceivable processes that make up the earth, ocean, and atmosphere are brought within a human modality, so we too can experience the outersonic, outertactile, and outervisual occurrences that more-than-human actors are aware of.

Duration plays an important role in my practice. I believe that to understand the vitality intrinsic to more-than-human actors, one must adopt an alternative view of time, since within the perspective of evolutionary time, stone becomes animated. The installation Wadden Organ involves the sonification of the movement and heartbeat of a single mussel living in the Wadden Sea. This organism responds directly to its environment, creating a composition that sways to the ebb and flow of the Wadden Sea. A continuously changing sound field with a non-human duration, brought about by an organism that can potentially become 500 years old.

I see myself as a explorer rather than a source of knowledge. Everything that a work needs is outside of me. All information can be found somewhere in the world. My job is to discover these things and bring them together in a new artistic context. This requires a cultivated, patient, sensory attentiveness to the more-than-human forces operating outside and inside the human body.

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Photo by Wouter LeDuc