Mirror Speak, 2022
California Botanic Garden, Claremont, USA
stainless steel, water, electromagnets

‘Mirror Speak' is a site specific artwork created for the California Botanic Garden in Claremont, California. 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 patterns to form on the surface of the water. Small wavelets 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.

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