Artist Statement
In 2018, I undertook a cross-cultural residency at Red Gate Studios in Beijing, supported by a Bundanon Trust Scholarship. This residency enabled further research into acoustic architecture, resulting in a series of projects that examined binary voice transmission and modes of messaging at the ancient Echo Wall of the Temple of Heaven.
Inscribed Perspectives is a film about a wall: a boundary, a divider, and a parabolic structure that once enabled private communication—a place to speak to another, or to secretly inscribe thoughts and the initials of a loved one. These messages are now permanently etched into the wall’s surface, leaving it permanently marked. This artwork is a visual encounter with the venerated 50-metre Echo wall, presented as a slow, meditative walk along its curve, scrolling from left to right. The camera observes the deliberate scarification of the 14th-century structure, which is now barricaded and inaccessible for whispering or exchange. What remains is a silent encounter, in which traces of past communication persist without a voice.
The Echo Wall at the Temple of Heavens, Beijing
Studio exhibition at Red Gate, Beijing
