Discourse / Primal Scream

Discourse (2023) Installed in the Mojave Desert, Discourse consists of two municiple-style signs each with a silhouetted speaking head emoji 🗣️ facing one another. The piece is a visual pun on communication, or its limits, a caution sign for what passes as dialogue today. In the silence of the desert, the piece takes on even more tension and absurdity. Viewers are invited to approach the signs and perform a primal scream. The result is both cathartic and comic: a staged conversation where no one listens and everyone yells. Set against the vast stillness of the desert, the piece turns public speech into private release. This is signage as ritual object. As therapy. As critique. As joke.