Published in Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific (Set Margins, 2025)

The sound of the wind, like stories and epics, helps us locate ourselves in the world.

I was fortunate to be a researcher with the Getty Institute’s 2024 initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide. In addition to our art exhibitions, my contribution was an essay about the energy of the wind:

How do we perceive an expanse like the air, so often perceived as emptiness? And what if that emptiness is the air over the Pacific, the greatest expanse of ocean on earth? The constituents of air (oxygen, nitrogen, a little argon, and traces of other gases) are invisible. Air has no taste, no smell, no sound. It has heft we’re usually insensible to, despite our living, as Evangelista Torricelli, inventor of the barometer, observed, “at the bottom of an ocean of air.” We consume it without thought, breathe 360 liters per hour of it, share it with plants and other animal species, pollute it and disregard it. But air is where we live.    Learn More