Commissioned by John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Video and Video Editing: Sunny Leerasanthanah

Sound and Sound Editing: Cy Kim

Sound Credits:

Field recordings by Sunny Leerasanthanah

Studio recordings by Cy Kim and Sunny Leerasanthanah

Additional audio by the National Park Service Sound Library

Texts sourced from government and news media sources.

Partially produced while in residence at Fire Island Artist Residency 2022

The experimental video Naturalization uses abstract, out-of-focus footage of nature overlaid with texts extracted from real calls to action for invasive species control created by the US government. The ambiguous, decontextualized and recontextualized texts conjure similarities with xenophobic rhetoric.