Coasts, 2006
glass, video, sound installation

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Digital video is projected onto hung glass sculpture, and the accompanying sound is projected out from it from speakers mounted in the tails. The sculpture serves as the primary resonating body for the sound.

drawn in / cast out
tide in / tide out
plane in / plane out
intimacy with glass sculpture
singers for a community of machines that fly

There's a natural instinct to admire, but not touch glass. I'd like to motivate people to get closer to glass sculpture, to experience it unlike they normally do. There are things that you feel up close that you don't far away.

Aircraft landing and taking-off are coming from and going to many places, are of different shapes and sizes, and use different engines. They are like different birds with different bodies, different people with different bodies, different beings with different lifestyles and different voices, meeting at a venue with its own acoustics and sounds of activity.

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