An ambient audiovisual project exploring landscape as political theater, interior experience, and site of extraction. Under the alter ego "Crowboy," the work combines procedural animation, field recordings, and archival audio into an evolving desert world — part performance, part experimental album, part guided hallucination.
At its compositional core, the piece is driven by a data sonification of human-induced seismic activity in the Four Corners region, grounding the sound design in the real geological consequences of extractive industry. This threads through broader themes of extractivism and the historical displacement of human and non-human systems during westward mining expansion.
What began as two and a half months of remote, off-grid documentation across the Southwest — collecting footage and field recordings — evolved into a rejection of straightforward documentary in favor of procedural animation and projection mapping, with "Crowboy" emerging as a shadowy collaborator to destabilize the author's own perspective. The result is a world that invites curiosity without resolving it.
Crowboy Encounters the Valley was my masters project at KASK & Conservatorium in 2023, installed at the Design Museum Gent.
