Since August 2024 much of my studio research has been based at Smith College’s Ada and Archibald Macleish Field Station, a 250-acre area of forest and pasture land where I’m currently working as a Visiting Artist. Every week I visit two sites there to record the changes in soundscape as part of an informal acoustic ecology study. As a way of getting to know both the human and non-human activity at Macleish, I have also been scheduling walks with researchers, staff, students, and neighbors who know the area well, and they are introducing me to the sounds and species they know and notice. There is so much more going on here than meets the eye. Over the coming year or so you’ll get glimpses of new work in a variety of media inviting human visitors to listen, sniff the air, and sink our fingers into deep moss and snowdrift.