First visual impressions in an afternoons observations

Passing By

Snowdonia sounds May 2013 Drawing 3, towards the lake.

Sound drawing through Snowdonia

5 active speakers surround sound compilation, walking over changing terrain.


Surround - Snowdonia Audacity 1 - Dolby Digital Professional 5 (2)

Tate Tanks Audio Recording 2017 - 05 - 13 12 - 48 - 51

I work from my feet, connecting sounds, motion and terrain. Cognition is motion sensitive and site specific. I am interested in moving a viewer beyond the role of motionless observer. 
I think through drawing as I focus on an unknown particularity. The act of drawing takes me elsewhere, each individual encounter continues to impact on memory. I respond to these encounters immediately making quick loose drawings that reflect space, volume, mass and sensations absorbed from my surroundings.

I use sound to interrupt, switching focus between listening and seeing widens our perception, different experiences are described through sound, it forms alternative structures

Sound contains space.
Sound reflects activity, volume, terrain but has no image, no reality of its own.
Sound has presence but remains abstract.
Sound exists in the listener nowhere else.

I use materials that reflect the site of drawing and inform its place here now its presence reflects back into history, culture and place.

sound out loud