Shadows and Whispers: Echoes and Reflections

“All words, written, read, spoken, heard, or thought, connect. Any combinations of letters and sounds, in a bird’s song, a text, or a coughing, is a combination of circles, singular in their tone and message. All messages connect.”

-Mathias Schwartz-Clauss

The 2024 edition of Shadows and Whispers is about natural and human-made light, shadows, sound, and whispers. Nature and technology can seem like different worlds. However, could these worlds cross over and combine into new forms? Could the subtle boundaries between artificial and natural worlds hold keys to new kinds of harmony in our expanded, turbulent world? What can we learn from the patterns of nature? In turn, what can we offer nature? By intimately exploring our perception and responses to the materials that create shadows and whispers around us, we will build a shared story of echoes and reflections.

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