these words and the time it takes for them to fade, installed at Malvoyante, Los Angeles, 2026
In 2014, I started to write scores that would perform themselves; that is, simply by writing and/or reading a phrase, we could enact it. Because many of the scores started with the phrase, "these words and... ," I called them these words. In 2024, I began to write new versions of the scores, hence "new words." Many of the scores take the form of expanded cinema—film without film—but they are also something else. Their status as cinema (or as anything, really) remains open; they also seem to relate to what Mieko Shiomi says of music: “Feeling duration itself is music.”
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 (detail)