A Femur’s Folktale & Inherent Language, 2025

Old table leg, spun wool, three sound compositions, seven tumors. speakers, latex, silicone, ceramic gravel, medical table, red light.

wood leg 3.3’ x 6.5”, medical table 48” x 24” x 22”, tumors 3”x 4”

 A Femur’s Folktale is a found material that mirrors the sensation of my broken hip. After shattering my femur, I saw images of the injury but never truly connected with the MRIs. Then I found a broken table leg, cracked at the same angle as mine, and it gave me a physical expression of my injury. The rusted metal plate holding the split together became my leg. In Norse mythology, women would dig up the dead, and wrap bones in spun wool, wearing them like a medallion to bring good health. Here, I embrace my own version, wrapping the leg in wool I spun to bring my body good luck. Inherent Language, 2025 is an interactive sound sculpture that contains three pairs of stereo-paired tumors. Each set of tumors contain a L/R channel speakers, playing a sonic portrait of a tumor. If tumors had a sound, what would it be? What would be their own sonic soundscape? Having them only named from the outside, I wonder how to understand something from a place within, from a place made by me. Viewers are invited to pick up the tumors and hold them to their ears, listening.