Wavespace II, Milan Design Week 2023

The second installment of Wavespace included custom reclined seating that accommodated up to 14 viewers per viewing. A 10-minute performance of water reflections moving to music by Maurice Ravel and Nils Frahm envelope viewers in an immersive experience.

This artwork was on display at the Milan Design Week from April 18-23, 2023 for 'Shaped by Water', an exhibition that my studio put on in collaboration with Google.


Sympathetic Resonance, Milan Design Week, 2023

An array of eleven mirrored vessels filled with shallow pools of water hum with infrasonic tones, creating cymatic patterns on the water’s surface. As viewers approach the sculptures and navigate the space, their movements are reflected in changes to the tones and wave patterning. I see this work as a musical instrument - a kind of wind chime that sings in response to the public rather than the wind.

This artwork was on display at the Milan Design Week from April 18-23, 2023 for 'Shaped by Water', an exhibition that my studio put on in collaboration with Google.


Wavespace I, Los Angeles 2022

Wavespace is an immersive artwork that is part sound bath and part light show. Audience members enter into a dark room and lie down beneath a circular screen hanging from the ceiling. Beneath the screen, a mirrored bowl filled with water begins to vibrate with low oscillating tones. A patented projection optic hangs from ceiling and reflects off the water, projecting ever-shifting liquid patterns overhead onto the disc. These projections fill the audience’ visual field with caustic, cymatic patterns that rise and fall as the the tones change frequency. The experience is similar to cloud-gazing, where viewer's imaginations run free in wordless visual association.


Mirror Speak, California Botanic Garden, 2022

A mirrored sheet of stainless steel is mounted to submersible speakers that softly hum beneath a shallow reflecting pool. The speakers play a 13 hertz tone, which is the resonate frequency of the basin. This infrasonic frequency reverberates throughout the metal and causes cymatic wave patterns to form on the surface of the water. The cymatics start off as small wavelets but slowly build upon each other in a positive feedback loop to create larger currents that emanate across the basin. The result is a reflecting pool that appears to have a tidal current of its own, a swath of water reminiscent of the deep ocean waves.


Cymatic Fountain, Los Angeles CA, 2021

Permanent installation for a private residence in Los Angeles. The artwork fluctuates between two states: overflow & vibration. A circular laminar sheet of water flows over the edge when in the overflow state. At specific times of day, the fountain switches to a vibration state, creating cymatic waves in the central basin of water.


Speaking Water, 2020

A parabolic mirror mounted on a polished aluminum pedestal reflects the open sky, shaping the small pool of water contained within into a liquid lens. As ambient light is caught in a cascading series of reflections between the curved mirror and the underside of the water, a speaker housed within the sculpture vibrates the bowl with subsonic frequencies to disrupt the water's smooth surface with cymatic patterns, scattering light into a scintillating display. Choreographed performances of vibrations slowly build and dissipate, entraining the viewer into a relaxed and meditative state of mind.


Cymatic Sun, 2014

Cymatic Sun is a projected artwork that translates sound into a visual experience through water reflections. A large parabolic mirror, acting as both vessel and optic, is filled with water and vibrated with a transducer that plays subsonic frequencies. These sound waves propagate through the water to form cymatic patterns that when illuminated, refract light to create real-time projections.