Class Projects

Voicemail, 2011, Locative Sound Project
*actual photograph forthcoming*
In Voicemail, the artist created an audio walking tour designed to evoke feelings of fractured memory. The audience wears headphones, which play a soundtrack to accompany the walk from the front of Emily Carr University up towards the seawall. The audio is a collage of personal voicemail messages from the artist's mobile phone, underscored by an original ambient guitar loop, which has been reversed using a delay pedal.

Several references inform the piece, such as found sound artists The Books (specifically their album Lost & Safe) and Janet Cardiff's 2004 walking tour "Her Long Black Hair". The Books in particular had a large influence on the artist. All of the duo's recordings utilize found sound clips of a wide range of material - for a few examples, instructional VHS tapes, ancient religious sermons, and obscure interviews. 

Voicemail is a deeply personal project, with many of the messages from people that had profound effects on the artist's time in Vancouver. The audience hears a narrative with its natural highs and lows - the end of a relationship, a birthday wish, a medical scare, a job interview. The guitar loop creates a common thread and mood for the scattered voices, with the reverse crescendos conjures the idea of pulling memories out of the past.





Diamond Rings, 2011, Google Earth Tour
"Diamond Rings" is a Google Earth Tour hilighting a selection of various little league and public baseball diamonds. The parks selected were chosen based on the artist's connections to the fields, whether through personal memory or current fascination.

The tour is meant to play in the Google Earth application, pausing for a few seconds while the artist explains each stop on the route, discussing attributes of each field.


Riding Your Bike - Using Headphones, 2011, vinyl sticker, 7 x 7"
In "Riding Your Bike...", the artist created an urban intervention calling for the safety of cyclists in Vancouver. By emulating the style of the ubiquitous warning signs seen on the roads of North America, the sticker captures the attention of Emily Carr students parking their bicycles in the bike cages.




Urban Intervention Mockup:
Sign reads "Riding your bike while using headphones at the same time is stupid."




Shirts & Skins, 2011, panoramic photograph, 40 x 13"

In Shirts & Skins, the artist has crafted a photographic manipulation depicting himself in the act of throwing down a slam dunk on his opponent, also himself. The image was created by stitching together a large quantity of photographs, taken on a cold January night in the backyard court of a nearby house.

This panorama was certainly influenced by both the artist's peer group and by artists such as Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Wood, and most obviously Anthony Goicolea (I'll Show You Yours if You Show Me Mine, 2000), all of whom were discussed in the DIVA seminars.

Other than the obvious focus of the two figures, the backyard of the house provides a subtle surrounding one might not normally associate with the action of sports. However, this particular image of the basketball player frozen in a brief moment accurately conveys a space in which the artist feels joy and catharsis.