SEEING SOUND  (2025-26)


Named after the Greek word ‘κῦμα’ (kŷma), meaning wave, the field of Cymatics was discovered in 1680 by the English polymath Robert Hooke when running his boe along the edge of a metal plate topped with a dusting of flour that formed an intriciate arrangement of peaks and troughs that traced the transfer of soundwaves through a solid form.

Simple yet remarkable, this discovery marks one of the earliest experiments revealing the vast extent of veiled mechanics that shape and inform our lives and inform our relationship towards and between the locations in which we find ourselves. 

Reflecting on the quiet siginificance of Hooke’s experiment I set out to capture sound myself using a water based solution instead of flour to visualise frequencies towards the lowest end of human hearing, between 12 and 50hz. From dense and entangled webs to delicate and illusive strings of sound each captured moment documents a moment of interaction between the sound and light. Varying in appearance each frame is equally wonderful yet notably uncertain in their varying states of completeness.





Details:
Photopolymer Gravure on fibre based paper
Image Size - 600 x 600mm

Number of prints in series - 24














                 































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