This collaborative video and sound work, created with Erin Gould, was filmed on the last Saturday in October, 2018 with a windmill located on an abandoned homestead in what is now designated the Gila Wilderness in Southeastern New Mexico. Although the windmill is no longer used for its constructed purpose, it still remains active, moving in and singing with the wind.

After hiking miles to the homestead, we spent the afternoon playing music with and through the windmill, recording this process of engagement visually and sonically. The resulting audio and video work is a document of the engagements between the body of the windmill, our human bodies, and the voices of the insects, birds, and wind that filled the late summer valley.

This work is an entry point into developing collaborations across biotic and abiotic boundaries and incorporating the continued vitality of materials beyond their narrow human-intended purposes, and an engagement with what is left behind in processes of colonization, failure, and loss.

Artwork information: Jess Zeglin, Erin Gould. 6:58 video and 2-channel audio. 2019.