This is so serious, I’m drinking black coffee. YES! Thrilled to announce I’ve been awarded an artist in residence at Jack Straw in Seattle. I’ll be continuing to work on Forest Time Water, my sound sculpture that’s going to play sound and data all about water, time travel, love, and of course, trees. I have a Summer Research Grant from Western Washington University to work on it, to learn the DAWs I’ll need to work with to incorporate data sonification.
I was talking with my 86 year old mother the other day about it and really simplified it for her. It’s like an instrument you can see through and step into and when you touch it, it plays sounds of water. She really liked that. Something about making your mom get your work, that’s pretty rare and special, especially as an artist.
I’ve got an event coming up in a few weeks with my students at the Bellingham Alternative Library! It’s a screening of their work, interspersed with live performance. It’ll be a good opportunity to test run some new ideas. I feel that there is such an absence of media, performance art in this town. Pictures on the walls, kinetic metal sculpture, so predictable. We need more weird. If I have to bring it, so be it! I have plenty to go around.