A friend and colleague wrote after he saw the blog:
Does the piece change over time in regard to the materials? Does ice melt?
I was confused by the observation; they're photographs. What would sadly change is the piece's stability in the environment, but otherwise, no; quite the opposite. A central concept is that the images are of hard, unyielding materials that eventually relent over the passing of time. The sound (not yet uploaded but coming soon) is soft, fluid, and moves with the viewer as she/he travels through the installation.
The pieces have not yet been situated, though I've begun to map it out with stick figures. A rough calculation is that the piece will occupy a space of 25x 50 feet--not a small space.
However, generous space is needed also because of the sound elements. Because there is no spoken word and the sound is the weaving and layering of multi-directional sound bytes of varying length, the space the piece occupies becomes, as the above-mentioned colleague suggested, a choreographed element of the installation.
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