Susan Kleinberg

[Susan Klienberg](http://www.susankleinberg.com/) Tierra Sin Males Susan Kleinberg’s [Tierra Sin Males](https://vimeo.com/198498838?share=copy&fl=cl&fe=ci) is an animation built out of contradiction: a digitally generated glass sphere rolling with impossible tension, and a soundtrack pulled entirely from the real world. The image is synthetic; the resonance is bodily. That pairing is deliberate. Her mentor John Cage taught her that every organ vibrates at its own frequency, and the piece carries that insight forward - equilibrium and disequilibrium held in the same frame. At the center of the orbit is an image people mistake for ancient art - a fragment of Attic pottery, an Etruscan mask, a calligraphic ruin. In truth, it is the reflection of a highway sign on the U.S.–Mexico border: a silhouette of a family running, the word Caution flashing beside them. For years she carried that image, waiting for the structure that could hold its ethical weight. Tierra Sin Males became that struc