Etude
11.5" x 9.5" x 3"
In Etude, musical notation meets forest silence. A dark veil hangs over a score that may never be played. This work explores the tension between learning and forgetting, visibility and obscurity—where practice becomes memory, and the natural world rewrites the notes.
11.5" x 9.5" x 3"
In Etude, musical notation meets forest silence. A dark veil hangs over a score that may never be played. This work explores the tension between learning and forgetting, visibility and obscurity—where practice becomes memory, and the natural world rewrites the notes.
11.5" x 9.5" x 3"
In Etude, musical notation meets forest silence. A dark veil hangs over a score that may never be played. This work explores the tension between learning and forgetting, visibility and obscurity—where practice becomes memory, and the natural world rewrites the notes.
Materials List:
Sheet music
Preserved bracket fungi (e.g., Trametes)
Bird skull
Vintage light bulbs
Brass rods
Batik on paper
Optical lenses
Found metal hardware
Decorative gold-toned outer frame
Etude—meaning "study" in French—is a meditation on what we practice, repeat, and try to understand. Sheet music lines the base of the composition, while green-gilled fungi and a sculptural bird skull interrupt the harmony. A dark-toned print partially obscures the score, suspended behind brass rods like a curtain or a barrier. Hidden bulbs and optical lenses suggest glimpses of revelation, but only in fragments. This is not a performance, but a rehearsal. Not a resolution, but a layered pause.