selu songs

How does the land become a charged site of memory and history? What kind of remnants may be found from what had occurred, and still occurs, on the land and within it? There is a shifting dialogue between the seemingly static nature of what the land holds, and how the land evolves as humans live off of it, appropriate it, fight over it, and remake it. Although we humans move with our own histories within us, the land we’ve lived on stays, holding what occurs upon it as another kind of history—both exploitative and generative—waiting to be explored, questioned, and shared. This new work happens on the forest floor with a flatbed scanner as my makeshift camera. I’ve used the scanner-as-camera in my studio in the past. It occurred to me that I could take it out to the woods at the Selu Conservancy for new reconnaissance. For new inquiries. I think of it like collecting field recordings — allowing, listening, seeing.