Noyes Studio Projects

Noyes Studio Projects explores themes of grief, memory, and healing through an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach. The practice reveals deep connections between human bodies, bodies of water, and all living beings, emphasizing their interdependence. By treating emotion as a foundational material, the studio reframes mourning as a transformative journey toward resilience, empathy, and purposeful action.

 

My current project, “The Booth,” creates space for the articulation of grief within the everyday flow of public life. Its vintage phone booth, installed in a public space, offers a brief, contained moment of privacy for individuals to speak truthfully about loss, sorrow, anger, or unresolved emotional weight. The booth operates as a threshold, reflecting how grief exists within communal spaces while remaining largely unspoken.

 

Water is a recurring element in my practice, functioning as both content and metaphor. Inside the booth, water is present, voices layered with a fluid, evolving soundscape that fluctuates between the modulated sounds of lakes and calming seas to the disturbingly persistent, powerful waterfalls. This shifting sonic environment echoes the way grief moves through the body in waves, pausing and returning. As participants speak, their words are absorbed into this sonic field, allowing personal expression to register as part of a shared emotional presence rather than an isolated event.

 

When the booth door opens, the sound of water spills into the surrounding space. This subtle release extends the experience outward, marking the speaker’s passage without exposing their words. What remains is not the content of the testimony, but the act of having spoken. The work foregrounds articulation rather than resolution, acknowledging that grief has no closure and is often unspectacular. The Booth is an interactive public space for vulnerability, reflection, and quiet endurance.

 

This project is in the beginning stages. Currently, I am seeking partners and fundraising. The more successful I am fiscally, the stronger the public programming and overall project will be.