Fractured
2025
Animation, Text
I had a complicated relationship with learning the piano when I was young, sitting somewhere between obligation and resistance. By contrast, my partner, who taught piano, had a healthier relationship with the instrument. Sometimes, I think about her younger self, practising for hours, pressing the keys as if she were asking them questions.
When I attend recitals, I like to observe the interplay between the musicians and how their idiosyncrasies manifest: their eyelines, expressions, and how they might lean into specific notes or passages. At other times, I close my eyes to better focus on the phases of the notes, their attack, decay, and release; a small architecture of sound unfolding in time.
This series comes from that same curiosity: what happens when you stop trying to fix an image in place and instead take it apart before building it into something else?
It’s with this in mind that I’ve been thinking about how perception works: how some things you hear better with your eyes closed, and some things become clearer when you stop trying to look.
Maybe that’s all I’m doing: tuning in, tracing outlines, and trying not to miss the quiet parts.