Land under wave, 2023

Single-channel video

Stereo sound

27:00

Synopsis

Twenty-six views of a moonrise over Lake Michigan near Jacksonport, Wisconsin, a forested limestone cliffside cut by the tides into deep caves that thunder in the oncoming rush.

A respite and warning at a time of 113ºF/45ºC heat, drought, and millennial fires in my home of California.

A meditation on time, attention, and reverie, and a recognition of human traces within an implacable environment.


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Screenings and exhibitions

SPHERE World Cinema Carnival, Kolkata, August 18, 2023.

A live-performance version for eighteen soundmakers was commissioned and premiered by the University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop, April 21, 2023.