We Keep Our Faces Always Toward the Sun

Audio for video installation in collaboration with Leah Sandler.

Leah’s notes on the piece:

We Keep Our Faces Always Toward the Sun
2024
Devised for Solstice 2024, and with consideration of new legislation in Florida preventing local governments from requiring basic heat protection for outdoor workers, this projection and sound piece is an elegy for protection from the sun. A cell phone video of the April 8th solar eclipse shot inside a DIY pinhole viewing device projected onto a circular screen constructed from hand-pulled paper with pulp made from Florida HB 433 (2024), dried in the Florida summer sun, hung by a single roofing nail, is accompanied by a minimal drone score resonant with the frequency of the sun’s vibrations by composer Chaz Underriner. This gesture is a contemplation of Floridian vulnerability and irreverence to the sun. (The human scale of time exists within the geological scale of time.)