Echolocation
This series layers animal echolocation recordings with digital manipulations of discarded paintings, creating looping videos that echo cycles of call and response, rupture and return. Surface distortions—melting, bleaching, feedback—disrupt the original image, transforming static form into shifting resonance.
Echolocation becomes both method and metaphor: a way of navigating uncertainty, locating self through signal and distortion. The work traces the tension between isolation and interconnection, evoking a world where orientation, survival, and recognition depend on subtle rhythms—bodily, ecological, and cosmic.
2024. Full screen high-definition streaming optimal. Infinite video projection loops with echolocation recordings. Dimensions variable. Original composites include ink and acrylic on raw canvas.
Videos have patterned motion, sound, and flashing lights.
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Image 1: Waterglyph seed. Sperm whale echolocations by smithereens https://freesound.org/s/749954/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Image 2: Lost lake wound: Sound credit: Bat Echolocations Lost Lake OR.mp3 by daveincamas -- https://freesound.org/s/21308/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Image 3: Lagan incubation. Sound credit: Bats 1.wav by iainmccurdy -- https://freesound.org/s/498406/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 4: Cretan awakening. Sound credit: Horseshoe Bat by iainmccurdy -- https://freesound.org/s/747642/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Image 5: Eurre struggle. Sound credit: Bat echolocation call captured with a batbox by Sacha.Julien -- https://freesound.org/s/724581/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 6: Garuda sorting. bat echolocation at 0.05 times speed by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/755275/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 7: Khagesvara enlightenment. Sound credit: bat echolocation at 0.07 times speed by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/755272/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 8: Wetland crystallization. Leislers bat sonar Barnes.wav by deleted_user_1654820 -- https://freesound.org/s/98829/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
Image 9: Chiroptera surrender. Sound credit: Just the bats from AlienXXX's Freesound#433734, but sloow.flac by Timbre -- https://freesound.org/s/450201/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Image 10: Klankbeeld crucifixion. Sound credit: bat - frequency 1 percent org 03.wav by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/502489/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Image 11: Canaveral fragmentation. Sound credit: ANMLAqua-dolphin-eldora-20240224 by nathanwolek -- https://freesound.org/s/727605/ -- License: Attribution 4.0