My Word is Hard to Hear

2015, Installation/performance: Audio Speaker, Rice grains

This work is an investigation into intimacy, but perhaps not closeness, in public spaces. Each circle on the floor acts as a listening station, focusing the voices of one of two readers reciting the same poem in hushed tones otherwise lost amongst the space's other noise. Without sharing with the listener any personal details apart from their manner of speech while in the circle, the readings highlight the listeners' own understanding of the speakers' ambiguous identities.