The installation features the black oak savannah, which once covered the lands where the gallery now stands.Through an interactive DJ station, visitors can listen to the ultrasonic voices of 8 key species, translated to frequencies audible to the human ear and sped up so 24 hours are compressed within a 3-minute loop. Visitors can listen to individual plants, suggested mixes, or create custom mixes.
The sound station is set within a site-specific installation where one is surrounded by the very plants that they are listening to - perennials, shrubs, and trees that are alive and in bloom around them. The impression is as if a chunk of the black oak savannah has been transported to the gallery, but one’s experience and relation to the landscape has shifted as they’ve opened a door into the secret lives of plants.
