Scientists sent a final love song to an unresponsive Mars rover.
Hearing this oriented me towards people and their adoration for objects, and my own fascination for wolf intervals: dissonance when sound waves between two notes fall out of sync. A howl of grit and longing. This discord is required to make precise harmonies in some tuning systems. To avoid hearing it, modern pianos spread the slipped distance of the wolf interval across the keyboard, sacrificing exact harmonies.
The work builds from this malleable but material ground of sound relationships, defending it from being fixed into false constructions and instead riding the urgency and faith of an unresolved story.
Installed as a part of the 2025 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition exhibited in The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Curated by Misa Jeffereis (Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis), Egbert Vongmalaithong (Assistant Curator, ICA at VCU), and Chase Westfall (Head of Gallery and Exhibitions, VCUarts Qatar), the 2025 exhibition reveals a cross-section of emergent practices that are rooted in collaboration, experimentation, and the urgency to make meaning in an ever-changing world.
