Sonar

Every finished work is an echo. A body of them draws a shape: subjects you keep circling, threads that have gone quiet, a direction you were taking before you knew it was one. Sonar listens across the whole body and tells you what comes back.

  • Sonar reads what you finish and keeps the index: subjects, motifs and terms that keep returning. Essays, photographs, objects, songs: the medium does not matter; what returns does. Names stay yours. Sonar proposes, you confirm.

  • Patterns rendered as one connected view: families, weights, cross-links. Open the map and see what the years of making actually look like and where two threads have just met.

  • You finish a piece and say so. Five minutes. The record comes back rewritten in full, every time, and you have never had to write a line of it.

  • Threads marked as candidates before they are confirmed: what is surfacing in the work ahead of you naming it. This is where what to make next comes from. Nothing is confirmed without you.

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  • Years of finished work in folders, and no view of what runs through it.

  • Between projects, choosing the next one on instinct alone.

  • More than one medium, and a suspicion they are secretly the same practice.

  • A subject you have been circling for years without quite saying its name.

Starting points

Any medium, any pace. The record starts saying true things at around fifteen finished pieces. Bring what exists and let it grow from there.