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Royal Hampshire County Hospital project 2005

photos/video/sound work

The following are examples of the sound recordings and work undertaken at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, sound can sometimes  over complicate the work, it is very seductive and can be disturbingly emotive.  It is so important to my work because working in the hospital the sounds are so distinctive and range from both human physical to the high technical sounds of equipment. Also as a nurse you are aware of the need for silence and sound to coincide and challenge each other. It is thought patients hearing is the last sense lost before unconsciousness and death. This thought was important to my work, ‘an aesthetic of audio through noise, noise being the same as silence insofar as they are both about thresholds’ (B. Drew discussion with Ed Baxter in Time Frames E Richardson 2004)

I am also interested in the writing of Carl Jung, especially in the dreams of the unconscious.

Jung pinpointed that dreams are the space where there is a dialogue and tangible relationship between the worlds of the personal and collective unconscious'  sharing this world where archetypal symbols guide us towards self knowledge, understanding and balance  our own psyches using collective symbols or  HYPERLINK "http://www.vol.it/mirror/Jung/arche1.html" \t "_blank" archetypes to form our dreams which guide and even determine our waking states. I feel that some of my sound recordings offer a dream like experience the sounds on waking are all around you but you are unable to locate them completely.


For me sounds provide depth to the work and transport you to another place, taken from the original space, another context is formed. It allows you to imagine or remember, to be somewhere in between reality and imaginary.