We Were Deaf is a series of portals pasted on the walls of the city. These portals transport the viewer to a future, eerily calm view of nature represented by video still lives of the environment. The subjects of these meditative scenes are the lapping waves, fluttering leaves and other rhythmic representations of an ecosystem at work. One is almost tele-transported to these isolated moments through the highly technologised, humanised universe of the QR-Code, the internet, and the mobile phone. An alienating, almost dehumanising journey that unites us with the essential character of mother nature.

We Were Deaf places us in the future, and through its written subtext - a poem of three lines - speaks of the present situation, one of suffering, neglect, ignorance and disconnectedness. Created for Copenhagen, the work challenges our very nature and our view of the future. Will we become so intertwined with technology that our experience of nature will be but a distant memory replayed on a computer screen? Or perhaps nature will survive, and, as the work suggests somehow be delivered from her pain. The real question is - are we in the picture?

We Were Deaf was installed on the streets of Melbourne, London, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Tokyo.