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I am translating that "choreography of belonging" onto a site of leisure. The films blend lived reality with blind spots whilst weaving spoken, handwritten, and typed language. Words float in stillness or drift with field recordings, while abstracted visuals are anchored to the rhythms of breathing, walking, and the seasons. These audio graphic methods privilege the prosody of spoken sentences to affect the listening ear. My approach is indebted to a disappearing local tradition of singing to more-than-humans, as well as the works of Ben Spatz and Mao Chenyu.
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