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Sondwerk serves as the repository for the research-based practice of John Robert Hatherly. Through the transcription and reorganization of cultural and personal material, the studio investigates the construction of meaning and the work of reverence as they reconfigure our collective understanding of the past, present, and future.
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John Robert Hatherly (b. 1983) Hatherly is an American artist, designer, photographer, and writer whose practice investigates the intersections of narrative, site, and the human condition. Before establishing the Sondwerk repository, he spent over a decade developing structural and narrative logic for mission-driven organizations, founders, and scientists. This background informs his forensic approach to institutional records and the construction of meaning.
Through his research initiative, The Infinite Search, Hatherly explores how we remain open to life and identifies the unlikely associations between the material world and the unseen record. His work functions as a continuous interrogation of the phenomenology of presence, utilizing photography and writing to follow the questions that arise at the boundary of documented history and personal inquiry. His work is held in private collections internationally.