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The Black Telephone
The Black Telephone is a part of an ongoing inquiry into an archival poetics. This specific work investigates the cultural unconscious of noir through assemblage, experimental writing, and visual composition. Working across found imagery, cinema, occult histories, and vernacular artifacts, the project examines darkness as an ecology of perception.
The work constructs a poetics of the dark in which images, fragments, and recurring symbols accumulate into an oneiric archive. Blackness as ink, shadow, film emulsion, intoxication, prophecy, and cosmic interval. Black functions as aesthetic strategy and epistemology. Cultural forms are displaced from their ordinary contexts and reorganized into unstable constellations of meaning to surface the unconscious relations between forms.
The project explores how technologies of image-making and historical representation produce collective dreams while concealing the violences and omissions upon which they depend. It asks what remains after the fractures of these systems are revealed: what forms of secondary attention, ecological imagination, and mythic perception might emerge from their ruins. Throughout the work, the archive ceases to function as a repository and instead becomes an oracular instrument, where remnants of the past generate new speculative relations.
