o, to mouth the moon

In the book Water and Dreams, Gaston Bachelard writes, "to hear the "o's" of water (eau), the whirlwinds and the roundness of their sounds." This slippage in translation is the editing structure for this series, merging the letter o's from the chapter "Water's Voice" with found images of the moon (from Exploring Space with a Camera by NASA), the spherical form in direct relationship with the ocean tides.

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Audra Wolowiec is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work oscillates between sculpture, installation, text and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. Wolowiec's work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Stony Brook University, Art in General, and Studio 10. Readings and events have taken place at MoMA PS1, The Poetry Project, Microscope Gallery, and Center for Performance Research. Her work has been featured in BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Sound American, and reductive journal. Wolowiec currently teaches at Parsons School of Design, SUNY Purchase, and Dia:Beacon. She is the founder and director of the publishing platform Gravel Projects.