Rusty Resonance
This artwork explores the landscape of the Tablelands, an exposed section of Earth’s mantle, through sound, colour, and light. Created during a month-long residency in Gros Morne National Park, the work emerges from pigment foraging and sustained sensory engagement with the land. As I became reacquainted with this geologically significant terrain, recording functioned as a way to attune to material expressions of deep time and to speculate on deep futures.
Video footage captured during walks in Gros Morne was filmed through a camera lens coated with rust pigment collected from the Tablelands, allowing the landscape to be optically filtered by its own material residue. Audio recorded on these walks was digitally altered so that pitch corresponds to the colour frequency of the rusted pigments encountered along the way.
How might we come to know Earth through rusty resonance?