2014
single channel video
13’00”
drafted is a time-based video and audio work that examines how perception unfolds across dislocated fragments of sound and space. Recorded in suburban Buffalo, New York, the project combines video documentation of ordinary surroundings, fields, roads, skies, and power lines, with a soundscape composed of overlapping radio transmissions. The audio shifts unpredictably among static, songs, conversations, and commercials gathered from multiple stations using a handheld recorder during field walks. Each transition connects unintentional fragments into an emergent and unstable continuity, as if the listener’s mind were constructing coherence out of noise. The low-volume audio requires headphones, creating an intimate auditory environment where attention oscillates between exterior landscape and interior perception. Through this interplay of image and sound, drafted explores how the human mind seeks pattern and meaning in temporal and spatial dislocation. The work reflects on how mediated listening transforms everyday space into a field of simultaneous realities, where the boundaries between environment, memory, and perception are continuously redefined.
% the original version of this video is designed to have a lower volume level, the viewer cannot hear anything without a set of headphones or sound amplifier. Below video presentation has amplified audio.