The work I made during my first Masters degree was part of an ambitious endeavour to explore the possibilities of making music for deaf people. I animated my paintings (some of which can be seen on the Saatchi gallery website https://www.saatchiart.com/lara) through slide projection and video editing and constructed integrated or synchronised video walls using six and nine TV monitors. With the generous help from friends, I also created a visual band - where each 'musician' was playing an optical instrument (a retro video console game called The Vectrex, an oscilloscope, lightboxes and more) and I set up various cameras wiring the output to a mixing board and overlaying the designs which were projected on a large screen like a light show. Although I was awarded a distinction during the course which involved a Postgraduate Diploma, I didn't have the contacts or resources to reach out to the community of people who struggle to hear. Research and development are very costly.

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I have been able to continue making moving images with digital animation, film and video - the thumbnails here are a few snapshots. I have been influenced by Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, John Whitney and Stan Brakhage having been exposed to their work both as an undergraduate through my York University Interdisciplinary Studies professor, George Manupelli (artist and founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival) and as a postgraduate student at Kent Institute of Art and Design under the direction of Al Rees, Stephen Littman and Mike Hibbert with the renown artist and current Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London, Malcolm Le Grice, as my external examiner.