Music
Forest Dwelling
Film
#28
Mail Art
Wind + Sound #6
about the art
This month, artists Nailah Hunter, Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh, and Adrian Tenney explore the tension between urban and natural environments and our yearning to find home in both spaces.
The sound film features Nailah Hunter's “Forest Dwelling” recorded with Cadmar Fitzhugh after a long weekend in Yosemite. Nailah weaves harp melodies with field recordings and an ethereal electronic palette to reflect on how life in the city makes it hard to live in her preferred state of perpetual nature-worship. In response to Nailah’s music, Hsuan-Kuang’s filmwork is a poetic farewell to the apartment that had been her sanctuary for the past three and half years. The film delves into the transient nature of the dwellings we inhabit, depicting her apartment not just as a physical space but as a temporal gateway of many possibilities.
Adrian Tenney is an artist and sustainable landscape architect whose work intertwines themes of ecology, reciprocity, environmental justice, and individual and community healing. This month’s mail art is part of her Field Observations series, where she paints outside with her eyes closed, drawing inspiration from the sound of her surroundings. In “Wind + Sound #6,” Adrian painted while sitting in a California native garden listening to the distant hum of a freeway and a light breeze. The result is an immersive wash of grays, offering a nuanced reflection on the intersection of natural and urban soundscapes.
Grappling with a reverie of the natural world as it collides with urban environments, this month’s artists give voice to a yearning to find their place in present lives and imagined escapes.