This piece was created through time-lapse video captured at Joshua Tree National Park in California. Throughout the duration of the video a line from Madonna’s Luck Star is repeated ten times. In its new context, Madonna’s voice has been removed and the line is now articulated through an electronic voice synthesizer pattern made famous by the eighties educational toy Speak & Spell. This vocal pattern is also commonly associated with and interpreted as the voice of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

Mantra (Repeat Ten Times)
Video (2min)
2009

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