Created in the first wave of lockdowns, Transcriptions, Transductions is an exploration of translation. How the image making process morphs a physical object to a photographic object, and the distortions that can occur within this transformation.
High gloss prints of a found circuit board are the focal point of Transcription I-III, which stems from a desire to understand or translate the function of this hieroglyphic object while drawing attention to the humanity and creativity embedded in unnatural objects and technologies we employ on a daily basis and yet know so little about, both their aesthetics and their machinery. The scanning process used to capture this image is durational, and its utilisation seeks to compare the photographic process to transcribing a conversation onto the physical dimensions of a page, highlighting the distortions can occur when mapping time to space.
Transduction, another process of conversion is the transfer of energy from one form to another, whether human senses are able to experience that energy or not. Commonplace transductions are essential to the functioning of networks and their (human) perceived silence often belies incredible amounts of abstracted computational labour. Transduction I emits sounds collected by recording the electromagnetic fields created by a flatbed scanner as it captures an image, drawing attention to the unheard information that saturated our environments - an image of a sound and a sound of an image.