Welcome to my blog! I will be posting links to my past and current works here.
A Brief Statement About My Work:
A Brief Statement About My Work:
My art/studio practice involves
gardening, collecting, performing, recording to create objects, environments,
situations in which the audience and myself are engaged in an open-ended
dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the invisible.
My studies in landscape
architecture expanded the scale of my practice as an artist/composer. As a
designer my goal is to create spaces reflecting history, culture and diversity
of community and ecology. Art and altars of Africa and the African-Americas,
Japanese garden design electro-acoustic composition and acoustic ecology have
influenced much of the work I have produced.
The processes involved in my
practice lie within the area of field recording, electro-acoustic composition
and dub technique. As an artist and designer, landscape - especially in an
urban context - is a complex matrix of systems, communities and networks: it
has its roots in both painting and agriculture, and has come to encompass more
than garden design or the picturesque. In my practice, I have found inspiration
with emerging practices and thinking of 1970s artists, musicians, critics and
designers regarding landscape and sound- specifically Rosalind Krauss’ article
“Sculpture in the Expanded Field”, the advent of dub reggae, and the formation
of the world sound project (also known as acoustic ecology) by Murray Shaffer.
The work being done by the latter contributes to current discourse in Landscape
Urbanism, Electro-acoustic composition and sound art.
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