“This is a show that was organised at slightly short notice. Some of the work is very recent some
from twenty six years ago. The title alludes to some of the recent work, where sound, or my loss
of it, has prompted an investigation into possible visual analogues for my increasing deafness.
Whilst I am not interested in framing my practise as an aspect of the monolithic identity
obsession, so characteristic of early 21st century life, there are some interesting ways in which I
now process information, always my main subject, from acoustic sources in relationship to how I
deal with knowledge culled from printed matter.
‘Baffle’, is too confound or bewilder. But it’s also an important object in the recording and
rehearsal studio. It moderates or dampens sound waves.
The work explores many different aspects and avenues of language, communication and
documentation. It seemed to make sense to leaven the exhibition with my more recent
investigations, making use of my redundant LP collection.” Jonathan Callan