Fragments of a Former Moon

Fragments of a Former Moon developed from ongoing experiments with patinas and corrosives. Through use and evaporation of varying mixtures of cupric sulfate, aluminum chloride, rust and water, Haynes discovered a beautiful stratification of the chemical residue. For this body of work he sought to replicate this process using acrylic medium and large panes of glass. This installation consists of 36 panes of glass smeared and coated with these acrylic bound chemicals.

Fragments of a Former Moon features a 4-channel sound program, broadcast through a series of disassembled speaker cones. The repeated drone fragments, textural abrasions, and shortwave radio extracts are an aural parallel to the visual vocabularies of decay found on the 36 panes of glass.

Jim Haynes resides in San Francisco and has exhibited at The Exploratorium (San Francisco), Westspace (Melbourne, Australia), Diapason (New York), Jack Straw Projects (Seattle), Works (San Jose), Eyedrum (Atlanta), The Fugitive Art Center (Nashville), and Varnish (San Francisco). Since 2001, he has been active as the Editorial Director for 23five, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound arts within the public arena. Through 23five, he has co-curated the 2003 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and the 2007 Activating The Medium Festival. Haynes has also written extensively on sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Pulse, The Sound Projector, and Chunklet.