hard ground / long road

Abstract

My work is anchored in analog technology, found materials, field recordings, and the search for constellations of micro-narratives. In August 2021, I drove from San Francisco, California to London, Ontario. During the seventeen days on the road, I recorded radio noise (AM, FM picket-fencing) as well as my voice describing the environment surrounding the road at the times when I could not stop to take a photo. The sounds collected from the long road are recorded chronologically in an intaglio print. These recordings are the foundation of multidisciplinary sound and visual projects that coalesce as an installation exploring place/no-placeness, transience, precognition, repetition, delays, disappearance, and noise. Works selected for tba journal are pinhole photographs, a double-sided intaglio print, and a sound composition, that are all a part of the series described in my artist statement and share the title hard ground / long road. The print is reproduced at its original scale; the text is followed by the reverse side of the print, which is a line drawing. Two pinhole photographs bookend the works on paper. The sound companion to the visual works is a composition created on and with magnetic tape. The composition foregrounds incidental sounds of the process of making the work: tape splicing and rewinding. recorder fixing, road noise and tape hiss, woven with cut-up radio recordings.