The work The day begins with a loud boom questions the way and extent to which we are defined by our relationship to the physical environment, as well as the cultural significance of the tools and techniques of production. The images come from a series of residencies in industrial sites, focusing on diamond cutting and the manufacture of automotive glass. She follows the path of the materials subjected to these processes, showing the traces of human intervention that make these materials both objects and repositories.
The successive repetitions of the ostinato the day begins with are treated graphically through its gradual erasure, evoking the tension in the assembly line work between repetition and linearity, accumulation and exhaustion, trace and erasure. This wear and tear is also expressed through the hard, immobile and architectural qualities of both the images and the music that accompanies the text. The latter employs a range of insidious effects, from the combination of dissonance and unsettling rhythm, reminiscent of the competing cycles of multiple industrial machines, to sensual and soothing sounds contaminated by their contrast with the harsh acoustic aesthetic elsewhere.