Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work around issues of power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and time to be supernatural. Her projects have addressed freedom, surveillance, public speech, sinkholes, levitation, orthoptera, raptors, comets, street drag racing, tightrope walking, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood and faith. Stratman’s films and artworks have been exhibited and awarded internationally. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.