As a visual artist and musician, my drawings, sculptures, and installations explore the cultural histories of musical objects and the diverse ways people relate to the audible world and to each other. Using the notion and practice of play, I am interested in transforming visual mediums and spaces into zones for listening and collaboration.
My sculptures and installations investigate the audible world beyond the modern, Western canon, and examine the relationship between music and language. This has included music composition and video installations based on the rhythmic patterns of different accents; models of pre-Columbian whistling vessels imprinted with the patterns of plastic consumer goods; and acoustic panels that reference minimalist sculpture.
In my drawings, I explore the relationship between composition and improvisation, abstraction and representation. Using mark-making as a thinking tool, my drawings surface the research that is embedded in my practice, including linguistics, anthropology, and behavioral sciences. Regardless of the visual medium, musical and sonic practices from underrepresented geographes and time periods are at the core of my work, along with asking questions about how sound makes us who we are.