these words and the time it takes for them to fade, installed at Malvoyante, Los Angeles, 2026
In 2014, I began to write scores that would perform themselves; that is, simply by writing and/or reading a phrase, we could enact it. In 2024, I started to write new versions of these scores. For convenience, I called them "new words." Many of these scores take the form of expanded cinema—film without film—but they are also almost nothing at all. Their status as cinema remains open; they also seem to relate to what Mieko Shiomi says of music: “Feeling duration itself is music. … you don’t need any sound, you can use something visual.”
these words and the time it take for them to fade
these words and the time it takes for them to fade (detail)
these words and the light behind them
these words and the lines they make
these words and the lines they make (detail)