Approach

How did you approach the assignment and re-creation of the work in a physical medium? Cite examples that informed your approach. 

I approached the project with some apprhension, because I have never done anything like this before. It was difficult choosing a sound, because there were many sorts of sounds that had some sort of meaning to me. I almost settled on the sound of my clock ticking in the quiet hours of the morning, because it was such a familiar sound to me, and yet was a background thought most of the time; I thought maybe creating something out of that idea would have been interesting. In the end, I decided on Radioactive, because I thought I could incorporate a message that I have a deep personal connection with into the work. After settling on Radioactive, I had to decide how to represent the sound. 

My biggest influence on this project was the artist Nathalie Miebach. The website for Natalie Miebach is here: 

http://www.nathaliemiebach.com/musical.html

Much of her art centers of looking at sheet music and and transforming her art into whimsical little wire creations. I got the idea to use wire to make my project from Miebach; I thought that the idea of wire, which is, in itself, such a flexible material capable of meaning so much, was brilliant tool in which to work with. In addition, it adds a structure without taking away a content; for this reason, I wanted to work with wire for my project. 

In addition, I took the idea of mapping a sound frequency/intensity from the Sound/Chair, from 2007, located here: 

http://www.plummerfernandez.com/Sound-Chair 

The idea shaped my idea to create a form based on frequency and intensity of the sound. 

Combining both of these ideas, I proceeded to play around with color meanings and how I would present my project, before finally making the project. It was a different experience creating something that I actually used my hands for; it was surprisingly difficult to get the wire to stay in place in shape in a three-dimensional space.