Britt Wilder Moseley

Inward Panorama

Dimensions Variable

Vacuum Cleaner, Laundry Basket, Pizza Box, Mirror, Transducers, Wire, Projector, Fog Machine, Monitor, Brightsign Media Players

12 min. loop

2023

Inward Panorama is a multi-channel audio-visual installation that examines perception through the lens of insomnia, a late night moment where the boundaries between thought, image, and sound begin to blur. The work draws inspiration from the 18th- and 19th-century Panorama: an immersive, 360-degree image designed to expand the viewer’s field of vision. In my version, the gaze is turned inward. The panoramic form becomes psychological rather than spatial, a way of mapping the mind’s landscape, where looping thought patterns surround the self.

Rather than depicting an external place, Inward Panorama constructs an interior architecture of cognition. Four everyday objects: a mirror, a vacuum cleaner, a pizza box, and a laundry bin, become the sculptural inhabitants of this mental environment. Each object is fitted with a transducer and multi-channel audio playback, giving voice to its own fragment of consciousness. In dialogue with one another, these objects create an acoustic network of thought in the form of an internal chatter that mirrors the restless systems of the sleepless mind.

The installation extends my ongoing inquiry into how sound, image, and material co-compose systems of perception. Like much of my work, it treats technology as a sculptural apparatus. These DIY A/V networks animate inert material, and reveal patterns between inner and outer worlds. Through the language of domestic objects and electronic sound, Inward Panorama transforms the intimate space of insomnia into a shared experience of attention, liveness, and the poetics of the everyday.

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