An Echo From The Bog That Professes Infinitum
2025
Medium: Kelp, reed, velvet, bog in plexiglass, copper electrodes, wires, custom electronics
Dimensions: 66" x 48" x 36"
Description: A sound installation generating subtle drone loops from the electrical activity of the bog. Using moss, seaweed, copper, and bog, it creates a biological-electric feedback loop between decay and communication, imagining the bog as an active, sentient archive.
A sound installation shaped by wetland bioelectrical signals, positioning the bog and the black hole as dark portals of memory and passage.
Copper electrodes embedded in living bog matter detect microcurrents, which are processed through custom Python code on a Raspberry Pi to modulate a sustained, evolving drone.
Above, a sculptural speaker, built from seaweed and modeled after an event horizon, frames a black center that evokes the singularity at the heart of a black hole, contrasted with the bog’s layered, organic memory. Materials include moss, peat, copper, velvet, kelp, and reed, merging environmental systems with speculative cosmology.
Rooted in sound, sculpture, and organic signal systems, the work bridges computational and material-based practices. The bog points toward ancestral land and cultural memory; the seaweed gestures to a sense of home in the Pacific Northwest. Together they form an interface between natural systems and sonic structures, where passage, collapse, and resonance coexist.