Steel Ice & Stone is the union of three media: Still image photographs, sound media and electronics. I created, collected and designed all aspects of this work. All three components contribute equally to the expression of the installation and the viewer's experience.
The viewer walks through the installation: a constellation of nine large—4 x 5-foot—photographs hanging from the ceiling of the exhibition space. Doing so, the viewer trips sensors set to play sound bytes from sound units embedded in each piece.
The work samples contain images of the artwork itself, the new sound unit's schematic, and my past work using this combination of media. The photographs are laser-exposed c-prints (not inkjets). The sound is the combination of machine sounds and bird calls from indigenous North American birds. The electronics is an embedded sound unit I am designing and building for this installation. It contains the sound chip, the sensor mechanism, and calibrating capacity for the sound volume (loudness) and sensor sensitivity.
All my work is in this media.
The effect? On me, was that feeling that I got when walking on lone, quiet streets in Cologne in early November. I'd be walking to my inn, a few steps from the red-nosed crowds at galleries, markets and carnival events, and felt a musing of freedom, different from anything I felt at home. A gentle anonymity, a pensive curiosity, the right combination of independence and belonging filled my reservoir of emotions; it’s a moment of introspection I move to share with others.
The viewer walks through the installation: a constellation of nine large—4 x 5-foot—photographs hanging from the ceiling of the exhibition space. Doing so, the viewer trips sensors set to play sound bytes from sound units embedded in each piece.
The work samples contain images of the artwork itself, the new sound unit's schematic, and my past work using this combination of media. The photographs are laser-exposed c-prints (not inkjets). The sound is the combination of machine sounds and bird calls from indigenous North American birds. The electronics is an embedded sound unit I am designing and building for this installation. It contains the sound chip, the sensor mechanism, and calibrating capacity for the sound volume (loudness) and sensor sensitivity.
All my work is in this media.
The effect? On me, was that feeling that I got when walking on lone, quiet streets in Cologne in early November. I'd be walking to my inn, a few steps from the red-nosed crowds at galleries, markets and carnival events, and felt a musing of freedom, different from anything I felt at home. A gentle anonymity, a pensive curiosity, the right combination of independence and belonging filled my reservoir of emotions; it’s a moment of introspection I move to share with others.
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