In collaboration with music composer Daniel Oldham, FOREST is an experimental VR piece; without a body, viewers can move freely through the interactive visual-music experience of abstract scenes –a meditative world of sculptural drawings (mushrooms, plants and ancient trees), spatialized earthy-electro sounds, and samples of experimental cello.
The original demo was created in 2018 and exhibited internationally in 2019. The newly revised/rebuilt FOREST 2024 is coming soon.
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3 channel video of three solar gopher repellents staked in the ground surrounded with dried weeds and soil. Each channel presents the repellent emitting a sonic pulse which is powered by the sun. The repellents have a variable sound (pitch and tone) and timing. Edited together, the channels perform a repellent tune.
Staked as a boundary to prevent burrowing critters from a yard, the sonic repellents backfire creating a looping residential nuisance and dead grass.
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Clay and cotton fibre
0.5” x 0.5” x 0.5”
Archival pigment prints on cotton rag
18” x 24”
2-channel animation with sound of a rotating paper wasp nest sculpture and drawings of eucalyptus and industrial tools.
Sound by composer Daniel Oldham
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Handmade paper, newsprint and abaca fiber
7” x 8” x 9”
Video of a birdfeeder and a Northern Flicker bird feeding and watching through a bedroom window frame.
Project installation as a video projection on a large wall of the exhibition space.
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8”x11.5”
8 prints, 8” x 6”
An experimental video on articles of sentiment which explores tonality and meaning through editing together a recorded improvised bass performance and text extracted from a photocopied childhood letter. The sound and text are further contrasted with abstracted family photographs.
Through time traveling, DEAR DAD stirs the relationship between father and daughter and their distance between two homes –a father abroad, on the pursuit for a new wife in the Philippines, and his young daughter left behind with unanswered questions. Filmed by his daughter, the bass footage focuses on her dad’s hands and stands in as a record of time dated seven years after her childhood letter. The digitally edited text and cropped photographs reflects a contemporary retrospective as it boldly affirms what’s lost between images and language –an inaccessible memory.
Diwa Filipino Film Showcase, Seattle, 2018
Pan Pavilion, Festival of Philippine Art & Culture, Los Angeles, 2016
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