acrossBorder(groundedAir)

Sound Film

acrossBorder(groundedAir)

by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker

Art Print Postcard

Nightshore 21, oil on panel

by Elsa Muñoz

about the art

To kick off Music for Your Inbox’s second year of programming, we premiere a sound film by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, a new renaissance artist whose practice embraces a constant stream of change and rebirth. Her sound film, acrossBorder(groundedAir), uses images from flights and body isolation choreography paired with a soundworld of subtle variation and morphing. In her work, “border” references both the literal and figurative, the borders within ourselves that we create and that are created for us by society, trepidation, and conservatism. For Elizabeth, the piece explores concepts of opening oneself to love and tenderness, struggles with anxiety and the intensity of sensation, uncomfortable settling into the realities of ageing, and a yearning to be with someone across a border in a time of border restrictions. However, Elizabeth creates her work with the understanding that her pieces are perceived through the lens of the individual experiencer's personal history, anatomy, cellular memory, and that her own experience of the piece serves as a counterpoint to other's absorption of the work.

Our visual artist this month is Elsa Muñoz, a painter whose photorealist, dreamy style enacts desahogamiento, literally translated to English as “undrowning.” Elsa’s work depicts controlled burns, the ocean at night, and still life from everyday routines; it is full of dark colors, yet retains a glowing quality. Her practice is centered in the union of intuitive ways of knowing, our changing climate realities, and the role of art in healing. Together, Elizabeth and Elsa’s pieces create a space to move through the discomfort of vulnerability.