Artist Statement
My creative practice is based in documentary arts. I work predominantly in audio, braiding sound and story to explore narratives of place, history, inheritance, and relationships. My work exists as site-specific audio walks, sound and sculpture installations, audio poems, and currently as long-form audio documentary. In my projects I’m looking for ripple effects across time, trying to get at why we are the way we are, why things happened the way they did, why a place is the way it is, how we fit together. Inspired by participatory documentary, memoir, archeology, and collage, I create through interview, archival research, field recording, found tape, and music composition. My work is also influenced by 10 years of freelance work in radio, podcast, and audio tour production and a background in visual arts. I love sound as a visual medium. It is the closest thing I have found to time travel.
Portrait made on a research trip, in the era of the story. Tintype made by Craig Murphy, Glens Falls NY, 2024.