Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New explores digital doorbell chimes as signals requesting a change between the states of being locked out and locked in, and specifically, the transition between personal and intimate spatial interiors existing within both the home and the mobile phone.

Entry to a dwelling is controlled and protected with a key to a locked front door, and, in parallel, a smart phone is encrypted and secured with the use of a passcode. In encryption, a public key enables contact with the owner of a private key, similarly to the publicly accessible doorbell, an electrical device which summons the owner of a residence. Encryption obscures a private interior, and may be broken into.

My moving image piece considers the doorbell, which can be pressed, pushed and rang, as an enclosed domestic object which is both sexual and female. This idea is discussed by Katherine Behar in Object-Oriented Feminism in 2016, where she proposes “to approach all objects from the inside-out position of being an object, too”.