pandemic, sonification, Covid 19, Coronavirus 

Narrative of Simple Forms challenges and deconstructs the idea of a painting by transforming it and its processes into journeys in sound. There is no conventional mark-maker, no discernible canvas, and no final image, but painting is taking place. The work provides a meditation on the missing narrative of paintings, making this narrative audible, and questioning the interpretation of the narrative as well as the response from a ""dynamic canvas"" in the mind of the listener. Sound is the medium of expression, linked intrinsically to the idea of painting on a 2D surface, but now also exploring form, time and emotion as added dimensions.

The space provides a discourse on the idea of knowing. Sound is heard on two sides of a partition. One with a blank canvas, the other with a visual representation of the sound projected on a screen. Listeners have the opportunity to exit without seeing what they have heard, therefore affirming that the 'painting' is sufficient in this form and with this narrative, and possibly a rebellion against conventional 'knowing'. The side of the room with the visualisation is presented as a Pandora's box - ""A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse"". To enter the room is to open the box, and with the confirmation of our eyes we lose the fluidity of the dream and all the possibilities within it; to not enter is to never be able to confirm the form that has been created in one's mind, but to be satisfied with a non-tangible, ever moving dream of the form. In this way we observe parallels between knowing and subjugation, and unknowing and freedom. 

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