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Restoring the Muddy Timbre

Public installation, ghost balloons

2024

Muddy River, Boston, MA

A collaborative installation with Isabella Febbroriello and Kyra Stupik installed in Boston's own Muddy River, a historical nature preservation which marks a division between Brookline and Roxbury. Historically, it has been used as a physical barrier and a tool for early English settlers to segregate and massacre Indigenous communities who once fished, hunted and gathered resources from the river. This piece serves as a reminder of an ongoing history of violence within the shell of its former self.

“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us forget that love is our most vivid manifestation and the most common power of life that is in us. Shouldn't we wonder how the lights that glimmer in the eye can blow a fuse for a time, even as barriers of oppression break and jam our passions? Yet despite a life stunted and distorted by mediated Spectacle, nothing has ever managed to strip love of its primal force. Although the heart's music fails to overwhelm the cacophony of profit efficiency, bit by bit it composes our destinies, according to tones, chords, and dissonances which render us happy if only we learn to harmonize the scattered notes that string emotions together.”

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-Raoul Vaneigem

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