Etude

$225.00

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.