A life-size shaman representing the technologies of representation, photography and digital imaging, plays the part of a guide, and a 21st Mnemosyne, the ancient Goddess of Memory and Mother of the Muses. Slowly rotating on a motorized base, she greets visitors at the entrance of this turn-of-the-century, house and garden of memory.

The installation consists of a series of rooms or chambers through which the viewer wanders, encountering various natural and culturally-produced artifacts with eyes, ears, and hands. In one room, large projected images of hands and landscapes envelop the walls. In another, a soft and muted inkjet print of a small figure walking in a forest stretches floor to ceiling.
Filtering throughout the space is a sound track composed by Garrison Hull that combines acoustic and electronic elements and layers ancient sounds with those carrying a contemporary resonance. In the area of the installation where Mnemosyne slowly turns, the mesmerizing beat of a wooden drum is combined with the flute song derived from the "Hymn to Dionysus and Apollo," the oldest known recorded melody. In other parts of the installation, a cello dominates, and in other we hear "found" audio such as a typewriter clicking and birds chirping.

While some of the elements of this installation have been preserved, other pieces have not survived. The "wall paper" from the leaf room was shown in an altered form in 2010 at the Provincetown Association & Museum as part of the New Media exhibition (right). The circuit board wall panels are also intact. (2021)