(transcribed from a voice note on from my Iphone (22.11.23) ‘The Dye Garden’ dissects a sense of longing, the agency of voice and language through its relationship to technology, the ephemerality of sound and acts of listening, The narration, throughout the video never actually arrives, its invited, counted in, heckled, lost to the hiss of magnetic tape. A Choir of AI voices chant in response, there’s is an inability to speak, to explain. There is a persistent set of thresholds at the core of the work, figurative, allusions to the body, to rot, and degradation, the window (a reoccurring theme within my work) defines a frame, a threshold, a limit, a border, containment, a sense of imminent spilling out, mediation. The evaporation of speech and breath, ….listening in your sleep, fruit and marble share the same etched pattern.