Ghost Choir

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GHOST CHOIR is the convergence of a recurring image in my work and a studio practice that embraces the alter ego as generative disruption.

In the winter of 1996, in a moment of intense emotion, a sound came through me. What began as a wail became an emanation connecting the earth's core, through me, to every star and planet. The sound was so old and so large I didn't even try to claim it as my own, even as a self-centered 23-year-old. The sound was not from me, but it came through me, connecting me to everything and everyone, everywhere.

In and out of my studio, I experiment with rules. Sometimes I use alter egos--embodied sets of rules--to push or disrupt certain predictable outcomes in my work. Each of these personae have a visual language and a mode of operation. This work is four of these studio personae--Otto, Santiago, Tammy, and Njezan--making sense of the sound that came through me all those years ago, performing its song in four-part harmony, conducted by me.