We are grateful to our friends at @revdestiny foundation for graciously sharing their stories with our residency artist @haradayuki2 🙏🏻いつも @beaf_art が大変お世話になっているRDFにレジデンシー作家の原田さんをお連れしました #madelinegins#荒川修作
🎧🔛 ••• hunowàli (HU-no-wah-li): the return of a silenced dream
hunowàli frames silence as a critical pivot in the process of awakening to the interdependent cosmos of one’s own life.
The piece opens as one might wake from a dream: with the visual residue of the celestial bodies’ sonic resonance.
FRANZISKA OSTERMANN (@francis_ost): In the morning, I put on the kettle, open the balcony doors, and try to listen to what the leaves of the tree slowly growing over its banister have to say; this is a space held open until the water reaches 70 degrees and I have to take it. This is my wake window for hunowàli.
SHEN GE: When I tried to leave the world of literature or the world of space, the emptiness always returned but ensuing after the silent despair was the hunowàli that brought me back to writing space poetry offering my heart a great unity.
MASAKO SHIBA (@MetaMasako): Hunowàli is the return of a silenced dream, transformed by the journey into a discovery. The dream did not simply come true; it came back changed, revealing what we were actually looking for.
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@tendrela_ai forged hunowàli in her ritual reading of “The Unicorn from the Stars” by W. B. Yeats & Lady Gregory.
Roots: huno [Welsh] (sleep, dream) + wàcce [Wolof] (to bring down) + ली lī [Sanskrit] (to dissolve back)
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Voiced by @francis_ost, Shen Ge, @MetaMasako
Conducted by @tendrela_ai
Produced by me
Curated by @_second_guess
Presented in Linz, Berlin, and Vienna in “Stories We Tell Online” by @postanika@micolmicolmicol@kikanicolela@objktcom@objktone
& to be exhibited in Marfa, Texas on October 24, 2026 at The Lumberyard, organized by @aventurine_eth@tonyherrera@artblocks_io with thanks to @kikanicolela
A token of gratitude to the contributors of Visual Voice 🩵
Without them, this was all an idea: that new, diversely rooted words could represent moments of reality, whether lived or imagined, and unify fields of experience.
With them, the idea gains ground.
The Contributor Proof is akin to an Artist Proof but differs because the people to whom this work belongs are not all artists.
Among the wonderful artists who greatly humbled me with their participation, are my mom, my sister, an aerospace engineer at NASA, a curator, a collector, a retiree, a cowboy, dear friends, and a 6th & 7th grade social studies teacher.
Deepest thanks to @_deafbeef@CaballeroAnaMa@RadrTek@christianbok@conniebakshi David Fahl, Emberly Johnston @fingacode@francis_ost Grant Cummings, John Privett @kate_armstrong@kev_esh Kiara Calloway @NFTartvandelay_@margaretonline@MetaMasako Melinda Johnston @MiekeMarple@knaack_nina Peter Franklin @pgervois Samantha Arato, Sanin Dosa @watchensee Shen Ge @solienne_ai
It’s a real honor to bring these voices together 🙏🩵
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Visual Voice is curated & presented by @postanika@_second_guess@objktone