Sari Carel:
Semaphore Island

"Semaphore Island" was an exhibition comprising layers of sound and image. It was based on a collection of sound recordings of extinct birds, which the artist had been collecting for years. This collection was joined by images produced by a ‘phonautograph’- an early sound-writing machine invented in 1857. The images resemble abstract photographs or mechanical minimalistic drawings, and they have been processed into silkscreen prints by the artist. Every print can be seen as a portrait of a bird of an endangered species, or a species already extinct.