Kris did the installation and I contributed the sound:
Songs of Our Daughter
Kris Cowen & J.R. Uretsky
Mixed media sound installation
The concept of cross-pollination makes us think of sharing, exchanging, borrowing, or appropriating an element from one thing and then applying it to something else. The idea of cross-pollination is inherently collaborative, and speaks to the type of art we are both interested in making; for us, sculpture is communal.
We wanted to create a personal art experience for a viewer in a public space. By combining private narratives (in relation to another sort of cross-pollinating) with an abstract environment, we provide the viewer with a space equipped for listening and contemplation. Songs of Our Daughter is a voyeuristic installation, a sort of eavesdropping experience, where the viewer is let in to the artist's personal lives the same way a friend would be- by listening. This project is a multi-sensory art experience that invites the viewer to "be in the know" in regards to the personal life of the artist; in doing so, we have creating an authentic feeling of acceptance in an artificial, constructed environment.
future Mr. Jamie Uretsky.
