so they reach back

Single-channel video installation with stereo sound, combining experimental field recording and handheld observational video

so they reach back is an audio-visual work born of intuitive, stream-of-consciousness field practice. Hand-held POV video, recorded while wandering through forest spaces, captures moments of pre-cognitive attention — a sensing-before-knowing in which shapes, textures and light arrive through embodied connection rather than deliberate framing. These visual fragments are paired with a sparse sound world built from unprocessed field recordings captured with contact microphones: the intimate and lively resonances of dragging wood along the forest floor.

The film operates as a dialogue between inner sensing and external material texture: visuals that attend to sudden pattern and light are set alongside tactile, disoriented sonic textures that resist conventional spatial cues. The result is a non-linear, immersive encounter that suggests a mode of listening that exceeds human perspective — an exchange in which the landscape seems to reach back.