Curiously her screen daughter in that best picture winner Jean Arthur, an even bigger star, shares her same birthday (for the year of 1900) 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for
the Optical Phonograph (an early step in creating the cinema) 1903 Author and screenwriter Nathanael West is born in NYC.
In recent years she has completed a collection of films which look closely at sound visualisation through various technologies such as Chladni patterns, the theremin, mechanical music,
phonograph grooves and drawn /
optical sound, paying close attention to the materiality of such technologies, the resulting sound patterns and the modes of gestural engagement.