ECHO CAMP (2021) is designed as one long horizon, directly influenced by the landscape of my mother's childhood on the edges of the Badlands in Alberta. It explores 'reading' as a form of 'mothering', collaging voices from literature, archived letters, photographs and text messages; all of which circulate around an image of Bianca Saricini suspended aloft above the city of Siena. A landscape is formed from words that echo to and from this central image of a woman, whose motion seems to permeate both backward and forwards, her one hand empty; palm to the sky, and in the other...a snowball. Echo Camp acts out a kind of dialogic ventriloquism, a garden where we learn to speak with another person's words, reflecting on ideas of continuity, potentiality, and hearing as a form of company.
