forked tongue, 2024
︎ sound installation | live performance
'forked tongue' (2024) transforms metal sculpture into a sound instrument to explore the tension between fragility and aggression. Hand-engraved, laser-cut forms shaped like distorted blood and teardrops evoke trauma and defense, bound together by ropes and chains that suggest both connection and restraint. Audio feedback captured and replayed through transducers makes the sculptures vibrate and collide, marking their own surfaces. Through this cycle of resonance and impact, forked tongue turns vulnerability into strength and sound into release.
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cut the tongue, it splits in your mouth
i stitch it shut
threaded with fish wire, my sharpest golden needle piercing the wet seam
it speaks to you
it speaks to me
I’d rather not hear
It tastes you
It tastes me
your bitter offerings
swallow one end of the wire, a communion of spit and blood
feel it tighten, a lifeline or a tether?
through the split, we are bound:
to speak
to consume
to endure
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