Sound has the ability to trigger visceral sensations and memories. For me as a child, hearing my parents talking to each other in the next room produced a deep sense of security in me - that someone else nearby was in charge, relieving me of the need to worry, no matter how fleetingly. Hearing that sound now collapses time for me through the warp of memory, beyond just conflating spaces and sensations in a hazy approximation of a past reality. Sound envelops the body, the vessel for that muscle memory, some deep twitch of childhood still listening within.
I want to investigate the fluctuating relationships between our self-awareness, place, and time, and how memory brings to light perceptions that can be both true and false from moment to moment. By distilling and manipulating sensations in a contained environment, I hope to provoke shifts of perception in the viewer that bring about self-reflection and a heightened sense of self-awareness, within and without.
