Hush is  a phenomenological portrait of the cultural use of pacifying noise.  In a Siren song of whispers, the word “hush” is fragmented across the roaring white noise of a waterfall.  The image, at times less a waterfall than cascading static, subtly fluctuates in a spellbinding play of time and motion.  

Hush is a work that aims to reference the contemporary phenomena of sound and music as situated at the crossroads of intuition and science, music and noise, as well as the surrealism and the uncanny.  It is particularly interested in the tensions and releases created by natural and synthetic stimuli, as catalysts for trance and meditative states.  Accompanying the voice and the waterfall/white noise is the glass armonica, an instrument once used by Franz Mesmer (from whence comes the term mesmerize) in his Paris salon ‘healing sessions’. His ‘suggestive healing’  was later developed by Freud as ‘hypnosis’.

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  2012. Reflex. Sami Center for Contemporary Art.

  Karasjok. 2012. Reflex. Nordnorsk Kunstsenter. Svolvær.