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SEEING SOUND, 2025


Sound is most commonly experienced as an audible and tactile sensation created by particles oscillating in the atmosphere. However, in 1680 the English polymath Robert Hooke discovered that sound waves can also be seen as well as heard through a method that would later become known as ‘Cymatics’, after the Greek word ‘κῦμα’ (kŷma) meaning wave.

In bridging the gap between the visible and the invisible, Cymatics revealed that the same sound can present itself differently depending on the physical properties of the medium it is transferred through such as metal or, in this case, water.

Reflecting upon these studies of the limits of what can naturally be perceived I set out to capture sound over varying durations of time and observe with my own eyes the complex and ever changing ways in which sound manifests itself.







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