Fertile Language Practices







(In)fertile (M)other (2025)
Computational Constructions (as video)


This piece turns to fragments of grammatical structures to subtly change meaning, drawing on links between written language and computer programming language, thinking through the online fertility forum in both form and content. These computational constructions are made using an online language space for learning code in a visual context, where sharing online is how the language grows.

As a machined practice, instructions in programming language must be correctly structured, with certain commands presented in parentheses to be effected at the interface. If something is absent, an “error” occurs. These elements within written language, contrastingly, serve to extend fluidity by containing a multiplicity of slippages through its punctuated parts, affecting inferred meaning of “fertile” and “mother” to allow for more expansive understandings. Such syntactical rules are lost in spoken intonation, only able to be read but not said, removing it from “final” performance and keeping it in its performative relation.









It failed, I failed (2024)
Children’s printing set text, on aged blotting paper, with computer generated voice


This piece was developed from common phrases observed across my archives of encounters between women, placed together to read as one exchange, projecting an imaginary conversation one might easily have with oneself, again and again, throughout a “process” of (in)fertility. Made with a simple text-to-speech online device, the disembodied computer-generated voice explores the effects of “meaningful” conversational speech acts that are both referential and performative, to question semantics through a mattering that demands a more vigilant listening.

In making, phrases were placed carefully across lines with structured gaps, varying punctuation to impose certain inflections. The resulting output alternates between objective machine speak and a more compassionate understanding as iterations move through the active and passive voice, effecting a common conditional relation between “failed” medical treatment and personal inference of a social positioning of “failure”.












(In)fertile (M)other (2025)
Computational Constructions (as video)


This piece turns to fragments of grammatical structures to subtly change meaning, drawing on links between written language and computer programming language, thinking through the online fertility forum in both form and content. These computational constructions are made using an online language space for learning code in a visual context, where sharing online is how the language grows.

As a machined practice, instructions in programming language must be correctly structured, with certain commands presented in parentheses to be effected at the interface. If something is absent, an “error” occurs. These elements within written language, contrastingly, serve to extend fluidity by containing a multiplicity of slippages through its punctuated parts, affecting inferred meaning of “fertile” and “mother” to allow for more expansive understandings. Such syntactical rules are lost in spoken intonation, only able to be read but not said, removing it from “final” performance and keeping it in its performative relation.









It failed, I failed (2024)
Children’s printing set text, on aged blotting paper, with computer generated voice


This piece was developed from common phrases observed across my archives of encounters between women, placed together to read as one exchange, projecting an imaginary conversation one might easily have with oneself, again and again, throughout a “process” of (in)fertility. Made with a simple text-to-speech online device, the disembodied computer-generated voice explores the effects of “meaningful” conversational speech acts that are both referential and performative, to question semantics through a mattering that demands a more vigilant listening.

In making, phrases were placed carefully across lines with structured gaps, varying punctuation to impose certain inflections. The resulting output alternates between objective machine speak and a more compassionate understanding as iterations move through the active and passive voice, effecting a common conditional relation between “failed” medical treatment and personal inference of a social positioning of “failure”.