2025| Composite

 

Situated within the discourse of the Anthropocene, my layered intermedial practice engages with the entangled consequences of human activity on ecological and geological systems. I consider land not only as a site of environmental crisis, but also as a palimpsest—a composite repository of memory, transformation, and deep time.

 

Within this conceptual framework, I partly draw on the archetypal duality of mother and father as foundational principles in nature: the maternal is evoked through soil, earth, and cycles of nurture and regeneration; the paternal through stone, structure, and endurance. Rock, in particular, operates as both witness and archive—inscribed with the temporal pressures of geological formation and anthropogenic disruption. Through this lens, my work seeks to open new territories of meaning-making between body, environment, and time.​

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This new series of work moves away from my previous working with my piano as object and further explores the transmutation of sound into words, images into sound, words into images, and the absence of sound. I am both composing/producing sound on/in my piano, and 'borrowing' sound for the work.

 

As a negotiation between presence and absence, silence and resonance, the intersection of sound and image becomes a composite palimpsest of sensory impressions and meanings. Deafness signalling a condition of not hearing becomes a metaphor for the lack of response to the Anthropocene's urgent call for action. In such sensory translation, sign language functions as both metaphor and method.​