Long Death Becoming
This was a work that came out of the processes I was watching with these trees and a reflection on systemic racism and police violence in the US. I was thinking about the soil collection at the Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, which is a collection of jars of soil from know sites of lynchings around the US. The haunting of soils by violence resonated with the connections I feel between place, history, and society. In a time when we were isolated by covid restrictions but felt connected by an (inter)national reckoning with needless, avoidable, police killings, I felt that rainwater was a powerful material to speak the names of some of the people on my mind and the minds of those I talked to.
This piece uses a filter I designed to only allow certain frequencies of sound to sound based on the keys I typed on my keyboard. The sound that is being modified by this filter is the sound of the rain dripping as seen in the video. I would like to rework this piece for installation so that viewers could type their thoughts and immediately hear the changes in the pitch of sound in the room.