Refrain in Three Parts (2025)

This project intertwines sculpture, projection-mapped animation, and sound to explore the re-formation of cultural memory. Structured in three couplets, the installation layers image and music—composed by Rodrigo Camargo and performed by Hannah Guzman (soprano) and David Oosse (vibraphone)—to reflect the intertwined processes of learning, forgetting, and reimagining language.

Each of the three couplets reframes recurring motifs: childhood vulnerability, linguistic uncertainty, and the unlearning of harmful values. The title suggests musical repetition and three metaphorical voices: the child, the immigrant, and the reconciled self. Together, sound and image invite viewers to reflect on adaptation, estrangement, and acceptance as layered processes.