LIFE IN SOUND

This wood sculpture is divided into three sections, all of which are meant to represent the significant periods of life since birth: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The visual forms of each phase were picked from sounds that I felt embodied my experience of that time. For Childhood, for instance, is the sound of overlapped birds chirping and my dogs barking— unadulterated melodies which once greeted me each morning when I woke up and still hold a warm familiarity to me when I visit home. To illustrate adolescence, I compiled a range of videos from middle school of my friends and I doing anything from talking, laughing, or singing in the hall—all noises that emulated unrestrained joy and budding selfhood. For the final phase, adulthood, I chose to overlap the noises of cities at night that I have lived in with the muffled sound of high energy music—both of which evoked the tone of quiet independence and shifting thrills.

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As you approach the piece perpendicularly, you are not only able to see the yellow permeate through the inside of the holes, but also tiny written dates on each piece of wood which ascribe a month and year of a period of my life. The dates range from my birth month and year to the present—capturing the physical progression of my life.

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The piece embodies the many phases one undergoes in their life. I chose to capture the spirit of these periods in the form of sound waves, sounds which capture the character of a certain time period and could always be replayed to revisit that point in time.