In in the garden (1:49min), I face the webcam both outwards and closer inwards, straying away from the normative display of the physical self on webcam. I specifically focus on the haptic nature of experience, and how that physicality is transforming while we increasingly live our day-to-day lives on screen. Importance is placed on the disconnection of our senses when on screen and attempts to express our longing for touch. I push physical experiences through the screen medium. I display a longing for a physical dimension of screen experience. I question our new reality, our new relationship to reality, our new screen sensibility. How does the webcam change our visions of the world and of ourselves?

Sound plays a role in our experience of physicality. I draw from composer Miya Masaoka’s use of biofeedback to produce “plant sounds” in real-time on a modular synthesizer. I extend this exploration of nature versus machine with the function of using my 10-year old laptop and it’s built in microphone to pick up the sounds of my exploration into the garden.

Nature is often regarded as a place of refuge from trauma. to see the earth before the end of the world explores our changing relationship to nature amidst climate and political catastrophe.

in the garden projected on the wall outside of Saint-Laurent Metro Station in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) as part of “Hereafter.” May 1-31, 2021.