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Acoustic Fossil: Soil RecordHealthy soil sings, unhealthy soil is silent; taking these two different sound recordings, I created an auditory loop, casting an image resonant of acoustic soil chromatography impressions and etched them both into stone to make a modern fossil record. Just as ancient fossils are silent, these too can only be read by eye and hand. They record our place in time, in this moment of a mass silencing of nature. You can feel the etches of the soil song with

Weaving the Past with the Present: Folklore Echoes

we see through the shadows and light created in the form's relief

although we live the lie that we can be separated everyday

William Blake envisioned a world where the infinite could be seen in the ordinary

Using stark black-and-white contrasts and a restrained composition

and rugged grooves in others

but affect

and the fluid motion of the water is the opposite of the hard-edged

The work sits within a wider inquiry into synthetic memory

sensory-rich materials to convey emotion and surface

A dog's disembodied eyes follow us around the room

Their faces are usually obscured