CREEPER
Audio installation; variable dimensions (2003)
40 Speakers, speaker wire, 20 CD players
Creeper was an audio installation mounted in an old abandoned home in Panama City. I constructed a sound creeper using speaker cables and speakers of varying sizes, which emmited more than 100 loops of sounds recorded within his home (someone sweeping, typing on a keyboard, or humming in the shower; a teapot whistling, a telephone ringing).
Utilizing an elegant, minimalist esthetic, the piece spoke of absence and presence, the impermanence of things, abandonment, memory, and the relentless passage of time. Visually, the creeper was quite perturbing: inhuman and cold, and yet somehow alive, its presence was sinister and invasive. Its aural dimension, on the other hand, used a warmer, more familiar language: sounds which evoked domesticity, intimacy, daily routine and human presence.