Learning is not always glamorous insight!
Submitted by Jenifer Wightman on Friday, 07/29/2022 8:38am
To be honest, I never intended to do anything with clay before this residency.
To be honest, I never intended to do anything with clay before this residency.
While I'm here at Djerassi, I'm working on my Macrophones project — essentially huge microphones that pick sound far below our range of hearing. I've pieced together the design from the literature on volcano sound and nuclear warhead test detection.
Everything is light and air here, we look down on the clouds over the ocean, they stretch out to cover us in mist each night and then recede again each day. Innumerable hawks hunt gophers in the grass, and I already had a bobcat encounter on the trail.
"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak."
- Shakespeare, Macbeth
Follow by Hideo Mabuchi
On my first day here, one of the first things I did was try to find as much art on the grounds as I could.