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ART Habens
Onyinye Alheri
In a time & place where hypervisibility
dominates, I am aiming to capture the
movements and bodies that a camera or
microphone can not: a slight movement in
the corner of your eye, the voice(s) in your
head, that haze you sensed with the back of
your head, vivid songs heard in dreams.
However, I recognize that this practice walks
the line between contributing to the over-
documentation and consumption of “things”
and asking you to give greater consideration
for those subtle hints of another world that
surround us. My hope is for the latter.
I have a strong fascination for conceptual
and theoretical physics, especially in
relation to how shapes and sounds influence
human perception. Both sounds and images
are expressions by which we understand
and connect with one another and our
reality. But yes, our Western society favors
visual logic, because half the work is already
done for us. We don’t need to imagine
because a screen does it for us. But I think
the same can apply for sound, especially
with music being as abundant and
disseminated as it is today. The point I’m
making is that both sound and images
bombard the average westernized human,
and I do not care to alter or question that
per se, but rather to use that phenomena of
bombardment for the spiritual benefit of the
masses. Solfeggios frequencies have an
incredible psychic effect, that many of us
can not easily understand, because we are
not trained to see, touch or manipulate
vibrations. But our subtle energy bodies do
that work for us, and we are lucky enough to
no longer have to seek that out. It is a gift.
Honestly, I don’t know how much I speak to
the viewer’s experience, as someone who
creates art, it is hard to distinguish the
viewer and the producer. By being present
both parties contribute to the understanding
and exploration of the piece. Art is
something that comes to us as a gift, a flash
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