manual transmissions

2018–present · Poetic objects and listening structures

Red wheelbarrow sculpture installed in a gallery

manual transmissions is an ongoing body of improvised analog structures, poetic objects, listening systems, and provisional transmission devices, built from found materials through literary activation, intuitive assembly, and low-tech processes.

Growing in part out of the earlier language-based haikussemblage works, the series translates words, memory, resonance, and embodied perception into fragile physical forms. Poems, sounds, signals, and fragments of cultural memory act as starting points, setting off temporary architectures that move between sculpture, instrument, diagram, and behavioral system.

Between literary interpretation and analog signal logic, the works become carriers of transmission: hand-built forms shaped by improvisation, feedback, accumulation, listening, and material response.

Fabric and wire assemblage with a striped canopy and red plunger base

haikussemblage

Poetic object constructions activated by literary references, embodied interpretation, improvised assembly, and material translation.

Photo-collage assemblage on a gray background

dyads and diodes

Improvised listening systems and analog signal structures exploring resonance, feedback, transmission, fragile circuitry, and provisional forms of communication.

Cardboard sculptural object mounted on wooden blocks
Assemblage with a photographic portrait, wire, and acrylic panels
Paper strip sculpture with 'Westminster Hi-Fi' text

manual transmissions
2018–present
Poetic object constructions, listening structures, analog signal forms, and improvised material translations

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