Susurrus, 2019 (from the Bond series)
Digital Collage, Archival Print on Canvas
8 ft x 10 ft
Images of Susurrus installed at Columbus Cultural Arts Center
A Rearing (Square Knot Ties), 2019
Sisal Baling Twine
Size Variable
More images of Square Knot Ties here
Digital Collage, Archival Print on Canvas
8 ft x 10 ft
Images of Susurrus installed at Columbus Cultural Arts Center
A Rearing (Square Knot Ties), 2019
Sisal Baling Twine
Size Variable
More images of Square Knot Ties here
"Susurrus"
Installation view
Assorted wool, adhesive, salt block
Installation view
Assorted wool, adhesive, salt block
Exhibition Statement
I could speak to horses first. Then came the rabbits, the dogs, cows, chickens, and goats; the coyotes, warblers, spiders, goldenrod, and the now-absent ash trees.
A language is quietly embedded in the ways animals touch one another. Like humans, other animals create and maintain inter and intraspecies bonds through touch—licking, rubbing, scratching—gestures that generate marks, leave traces, and form conversation of their own. The installation is a confluence of this sensory expression, a syntax in which the individual traces of reciprocity stand as morphemes: building blocks, the smallest meaningful units in this language. Using "sensory-based thinking", as animals do according to Temple Grandin, the nature of tactile gestures is then translated to material: twine, salt, fur. Witnessing these traces, both unassuming and ephemeral in nature, requires patient listening and meditative looking. With beginnings in an ongoing photography series that documents the visual residue of intraspecies bonding, Susurrus ruminates on the humble intimacy within reciprocal interspecies relationships.
I could speak to horses first. Then came the rabbits, the dogs, cows, chickens, and goats; the coyotes, warblers, spiders, goldenrod, and the now-absent ash trees.
A language is quietly embedded in the ways animals touch one another. Like humans, other animals create and maintain inter and intraspecies bonds through touch—licking, rubbing, scratching—gestures that generate marks, leave traces, and form conversation of their own. The installation is a confluence of this sensory expression, a syntax in which the individual traces of reciprocity stand as morphemes: building blocks, the smallest meaningful units in this language. Using "sensory-based thinking", as animals do according to Temple Grandin, the nature of tactile gestures is then translated to material: twine, salt, fur. Witnessing these traces, both unassuming and ephemeral in nature, requires patient listening and meditative looking. With beginnings in an ongoing photography series that documents the visual residue of intraspecies bonding, Susurrus ruminates on the humble intimacy within reciprocal interspecies relationships.