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Welcome, I explore visible and invisible worlds where experience becomes a writing experiment intersecting philosophy and nonfiction.


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What if our skin were also

the skin of the universe?

Pressed against unknown darkness

we are the limit, maybe

the membrane for all possibility.






building a life through the sounding field





I am interested in the experience of ‘inhabiting’ language in space--- as a sonic composition, a function of measure that has its own time signature: its rhythms and tempos, dissonances and harmonies, its dynamics (soft/loud, crescendo and diminuendo) and textures (mono/stereo/polyphonic and homophonic).


As sound lives from space, it is also a measure of space. It requires a context to give it scale, timbre and character. We use our bodies as a kind of measuring tool to get closer to what we hear. By listening to and assessing all the ‘languages’ that surround us, we feel the intonations between things. We in fact use our senses like an architect, as we take in impressions, we are in fact making a dwelling (as a fortress, a refuge, a clinic, a studio...), which is different from merely dwelling. What is implied? Sensing volumes and differences, measuring, locating ourselves at the center of impressions, building a world, even a way of life.



ABOUT



"Before the human being was a self-conscious being, an artist was at work in him, active as the spirit of language." -Rudolf Steiner





After teaching in academia for 14 years between Woodbury University (Los Angeles), University of Philosophical Research (Los Angeles), and Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota, Florida), I now focus on researching the way our language reflects the larger metaphysical dimensions of our lives through my own writing practice.


I have dual citizenship (Italy and USA), and was raised in France and California with an Italian father and an American mother. I have been attracted to linguistic sound values my whole life---and even further, to the experience of sound at large as a basis for existential tempo: the pace of life, of memory, of the actual experience of walking related to our thinking, and especially to the fluctuating natural world--all in tension between known and unknown.


My life is very connected to changes in the natural world and the diurnal sky. I sense a kinship with these movements. Somehow, the subtle changes of light and darkness modulating throughout the day into night over the course of the year move through me as a language-making/sense perception force. I feel I can speak because I am a time signature moved by the same circularity.


These preoccupations bring me to the preSocratic thinkers, to Martin Heidegger, to Gaston Bachelard, to alchemical writers such as Paracelsus, Rudolf Steiner, and to the cultural philosopher Jean Gebser. My work moves between text on the page to sound recording and design…. with the goal of documenting how nature moves from within.




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