Josephine Turalba
Sonar Chant, 2025
Embroidered hand-dyed piña-silk panel in deep teal
274 x 76 cm
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This panel imagines a radar tuned not to ships but to coral. At its center, a circular sonar screen drifts between reef and machine, its luminous lines radiating outward. A...
This panel imagines a radar tuned not to ships but to coral. At its center, a circular sonar screen drifts between reef and machine, its luminous lines radiating outward. A single blip registers an anomaly, both biogenic and unreadable. Surveillance visuals merge with slow sea architectures—reefs, polyps, crinoids, schools of fish, a manta ray, and hybrid creatures like a turtle or dolphin entangled with satellites.
The work explores sensing as both perception and intrusion. Patterns intended for classification reveal the limits of data: signals bleed into coral forms, surveillance zones become gray zones, and detection slips into imagination. Stitched texts echo radar logs, faltering before living forms, highlighting the instability between signal and noise, data and myth.
Embroidered Texts:
● CONTACT ANOMALY
● PATTERN MATCH: CORAL POLYP ARRAY
● 15.1208 N 117.4978 E Spatial Coordinates
● Islands and harbours continue to grow
● Unauth. freq. spike bearing 042, range unknown
● Lat. approx. 9 N – 16 N, Long. 114 E – 119 E
● ALARM SIGNAL DETECTED / ORIGIN: BIOGENIC
● Echo distortion
● Hybrid and gray zone strategies
The work explores sensing as both perception and intrusion. Patterns intended for classification reveal the limits of data: signals bleed into coral forms, surveillance zones become gray zones, and detection slips into imagination. Stitched texts echo radar logs, faltering before living forms, highlighting the instability between signal and noise, data and myth.
Embroidered Texts:
● CONTACT ANOMALY
● PATTERN MATCH: CORAL POLYP ARRAY
● 15.1208 N 117.4978 E Spatial Coordinates
● Islands and harbours continue to grow
● Unauth. freq. spike bearing 042, range unknown
● Lat. approx. 9 N – 16 N, Long. 114 E – 119 E
● ALARM SIGNAL DETECTED / ORIGIN: BIOGENIC
● Echo distortion
● Hybrid and gray zone strategies