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In Relative Obscurity : Without An End In Mind (2025)
In Relative Obscurity: Without an End in Mind is an experimental, site-specific audio-visual project that consists of improvisational American Primitive Guitar with Field Recordings over Video Artwork. The title comes from an essay I wrote for the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum quarterly publication, Dry Heat Vol. 5.
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Comprised of audio and video sourced from the Mojave Desert on the morning of October 19th, 2024, the 40 year anniversary of Goldwell Open Air Museum outdoor sculpture park in Rhyolite Nevada, just outside of world famous Death Valley. It was a windy, windy morning, which lent itself perfectly to my project.
The 60+ mph gusts of wind smashed against the tin roof of the Red Barn I was recording in. The energy was palpable as the sun rose and people began to show up to set up the 40th year anniversary celebration happening that day. The guitar drones I played were in the key of singing sand dunes again, which I just intuitively enjoy to play in, regardless. The open tuning and loop pedal gave me some interesting options to toy with while I was improvising that morning, almost playing with the gusts/roof rumblings.
It felt powerful to be in conversation with the morning, itself, before such an event.
The project was inspired by late Belgian Artist, Albert Szukalski, and his improvisational approach to both the creation of artwork and to life in general, I decided documenting moments like this with sort of “audio postcards” to look back on in the future was essential.
If the Verbeke Foundation never published their book on him, all of Albert’s relics of moments would be lost. The importance of documenting my works is very much due to the grace and generosity of both Verbeke Foundation & Goldwell Open Air Museum for having me on their Board of Directors; a decision that would eventually result in the dissolution of the entire former board to resign weeks before their Bullfrog Biennial grant funded event in October 2023. Without being called to the role of Secretary for Goldwell I may have never been exposed to such a unique and most importantly; largely unknown artist who left such a legacy in my “neck of the woods”, so to speak.
