wavespace, 2023
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.
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, 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.
Mirror speak
'Mirror Speak' is an artwork created for the California Botanic Garden.
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.
WaterGRAMS
Camera-less exposures of wave patterns on light sensitive photo paper. These images are my first exploration at documenting my sculptural cymatic work with analogue photographic processes.
cymatic fountain
Cymatic Fountain is a permanent outdoor water feature installed in Monrovia, CA in July 2021.
SPEAKING WATER
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.
The fully reflective surface causes the sculptures to blend into any given environment, creating the illusion that a dew drop of water floats in mid air.
'Speaking Water' in the desert gardens of Sunnyland Center & Gardens
Cymatic Sun
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.
