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MINOR THEORY
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2024. TIERRAS SONIDAS/SONIC RODEO SOUND ART FESTIVAL. MARFA, TX.
Sounding lines weighted with industrial debris from oil refinery and rig sites play with fluid dynamics — a physics that enables oil and gas extraction, its infrastructure, processes of breathing, and how sound propagates by the compressibility of its medium: air, water, earth, or flesh.
The weight of what each holds determines a figure’s internal cohesion and its fragility: artificial flowers blown up against the barbed wire at cemeteries, toys from Family Dollar, rusted things from the parking lots of Dairy Queens and underneath a billboard that says “Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Grave,” losing lottery tickets, to-do lists and diary pages.
Wind shapes the lines in vortices and entanglements, the contact of “oilfield trash” against a wall or itself.