Utilizing disrupted signal flow, cheap consumer technologies, and discarded obsolete devices, my work deals with fragmented time. Collecting existing objects and processing the weight those objects carry, this work pieces together disparate elements in an attempt to make things whole. 

After dissecting clock radios from resale shops, I wired them to switches of my own design. Talk radio nutcrackers. FM frequencies activated by a violin and an antique piano keyboard. A functioning reed organ that pulls signals from broadcast television tuners. These recontextualized objects function as access points to voices and songs competing to be heard.

[...] in terms of medium the result is space — that of the FM frequency — which is saturated with overlapping stations, so that what was once free by virtue of there having been space is no longer so. The word is free, but I am not; the space is so saturated, the pressure of all which wants to be heard so strong that I am no longer capable of knowing what I want. I plunge into the negative ecstasy of radio.*

I want to understand this overwhelming space. I am not interested in simply exploring noise. I am interested in creating magic.

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 *Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication; (New York: Semiotext(e), 1988).