SIGILS FOR COMMUNICATION

Faces and shapes emerge within a swirling vortex, while disembodied voices fight to break through white noise and stuttering radio chatter. Arriving in fragments of conversation or music, sometimes just a flash of sound, Breakthrough gives the unseen the opportunity to show itself. Based on the research of parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive, the work riffs on the idea that ghosts might communicate across electronic frequencies that are always present around us, unnoticed. The work functions as a visualiser for unseen presences. Equipment designed for paranormal investigation becomes an artistic tool, giving shape, sound, and motion to forces that are usually hidden.