I wanted to find a highly personal response to my observations in sound, which also avoided the use of technology to harp on the original purpose. I had originally expected to produce a project predominantly based on the quotes I heard spoke, but as I discovered, words were just a fraction of what I was able to hear without access to my own music. I decided to make small, simple, drawings/phrases of the quotes and objects I heard. The observation process was incredibly intimate feeling, and I wanted the response to echo that in scale and style - hand-made objects that could be contained within the hand of the viewer. I also decided acetate was an appropriate medium because of the fact that the sounds existed sometimes separately and sometimes simultaneously, and also could be assembled to create a complete collective experience -- the ability of the final pieces to be assembled, layered, and individually appreciated felt crucial in relation to my personal experience of hearing them all.
The sounds of my trips as a layered whole.
The sounds broken down as side-by-side objects.
A sampling of sounds that could all be heard in one passage of time, layered.
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