“Graham Fransella’s Head on Rust and Head in Landscape portray anonymous figures in an unknown time and place. With such contextual information removed the viewer is left with work that states the presence of the artist through a series of marks and lines. There is a tension in Fransella’s composition that needed to be matched when adding audio. Hence the audio accompaniments for Head on Rust and Head in Landscape are studies in maintaining a balance between space and sound. Viewing Head in Landscape I imagined the drone of a hot dry wind with dissonant tones reflecting distant waves of heat radiating from the earth. The wind in Head in Landscape also passes through the landscape in Head on Rust. Here I’ve chosen to use more metallic sounding tones to conjure images of objects that have been left to warp and disintegrate in the elements.”

Jay-Dea Lopez
Curator