The sound piece is based on a single recording of my voice reading the architectural book from which the collage images were taken. This recording was transformed into three different versions, each played through a different object. The audio presented here includes ambient sounds from the exhibition space.
2026
Mixed-media installation with sound
Collage from historical architectural images, wire, plaster
Loop
We often understand architecture as something artificial, as opposed to nature. Yet architecture is continually shaped by time. It weathers, cracks, and changes through its relationships not only with humans, but also with climate, plants, and other non-human beings. Seen in this way, architecture is something that continues to transform through time and its relationships with the environment. It may also be understood as another form of nature.
The work begins by deconstructing and recomposing images of old European architecture. The reconstructed images are applied to stone-like forms made from wire and plaster. Through this process, architecture becomes a surface, while the image is transformed into matter.
Inside the objects, three different sounds are played. They may be heard as language or as sounds of nature. Just as images are transformed into matter, sound moves between language and nature, further blurring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, and between architecture and nature.
The installation extends these relationships into space. Rather than functioning as independent sculptures, the objects are arranged as elements of a landscape. Through the distances between them, the empty spaces, and the movement of the viewer, images, materials, and sounds come together to form a single landscape.