Fossil Records

Fossil Records is a developing collection of ceramic “LPs” purporting to contain recordings of sounds that can only be imagined. Sounds that are lost to history; acoustic phenomena that exceed our ability to physically perceive; or sounds that are only perceivable via somatic or conceptual audiation.

Pieces:

  • Two Million Years of Rain (2025)

  • SIDE A (The Southern Hemisphere): The Stevens Island Wren of Aotearoa (2017)

  • SIDE B (Northern Hemisphere): Alvord Cutthroat Trout, Oregon, USA (2017)

2025

Ceramic

Exhibition history:

  • Portland Art Museum. Solo exhibition titled “Standard Candles”. Portland, OR, 2017

  • Liminal Gestures. Group Exhibition @ Theatre for a New City. NYC, 2025.

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