Truncated Husk I-II (2025)
Part of group show Up words, Down Worlds, shown at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn(NL)
Part of group show Up words, Down Worlds, shown at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn(NL)
Truncated Husk is a sound installation that explores the memory of trees through mechanical movement and resonance. Wooden and metal elements are struck by electrical machines, turning the material into both instrument and mouthpiece of the story.
The composed piece moves between two states: the cutting of the tree’s outer layer—its “skin”—and the imagined process of it growing back. Inspired by the Dutch knotwilg (pollard willow), a tree shaped again and again by human hands, the work reflects on cycles of damage and repair, and how traces of these changes remain in the tree’s form.
By listening closely, we hear not only the sounds of wood, but the story of a tree—its altercation, its resilience, and the way it continues on, altered but alive.
The composed piece moves between two states: the cutting of the tree’s outer layer—its “skin”—and the imagined process of it growing back. Inspired by the Dutch knotwilg (pollard willow), a tree shaped again and again by human hands, the work reflects on cycles of damage and repair, and how traces of these changes remain in the tree’s form.
By listening closely, we hear not only the sounds of wood, but the story of a tree—its altercation, its resilience, and the way it continues on, altered but alive.