Carson and Ricardo, as artists, question the possibility to (re)learn or consider a new way 'to listen' through the body  that stimulates sensory experiences by offering multiple simultaneous visual and audio information.  And then there was quiet was originally inspired bythe  artists quest to discover a way to depict and express a reaction to the environment that we exist in; one that is fraught with the overwhelming ‘loudness’ of information that often forcibly clashes against our own personal experience.

The work is a 40 minute installation that follows the performer(Carson), through various stages of loss, grief, and a fractious but can contain rebellion that can be felt when the world moves on and we have not.

Whether it is is clicks, views, or an algorithmic survey of turning on the television, there is clamour for the righteous acknowedlegement of the strangely cognitive situated position of being ‘objectively right’ . The experience we invite the viewer to is one where they can experience the more complex nuances of this experience through an embodied immersive experience,  cinematographic capturing, visual storytelling, and the sound experience of life which includes the ‘noise', or loudness of  ‘socio-political commentary' that we counter. A sound that may feel at times like an overload of sensory experience due to the fact the media creates a perceptively self-imposed personal position or agenda. The origin of the idea was before the creation of the work, however the work was  created during the Covid 19 Pandemic and the artists were personally confronted with the tragedy of the times that work reflected upon.  Both artists had to confront during this time the aspect of loss and how silence or quietness, normally associated with peace and calm, can be  experienced differently. The question became, even in the abstraction of commentary, how does the noise or lack there of in the environment overwhelm us? And at the same time, how is silence more overwhelming when it is tied with loss?

 That narrative is driven by a physical creation that is depicted through the positioning of multi-projection surfaces, while the sonic narrative on the other hand contributes and creates another possibility in the understanding perception. The sonic narrative is formed by the choice of sound, the dynamic range, the layering of harmonies and sound design, and the use of text or lyrics and their purpose within the piece.  The physical, through a visual depiction, moves you through the emotional and phenomenological experience of life.