Yugyeong Lee Looking Outwards 04

In this project called Mother, an artist named Inmi Lee derived a form out of sound through her inquiry on how sound might be represented in a form. It is a 3-D printed sculpture based on an algorithm created by capturing hand gestures of participants of an experiment. The experiment goes like this: Utilizing a language that has a strong correlation between how it’s written and how it sounds-Korean-participants who are unfamiliar with the language have to try to describe what the word might meam by gesture. Because they don’t understand Korean, they will take the words they hear as sound rather than words. Strongly correlated with the artist’s past experience of immigrating to different countries having English not as her first language, the project is strongly integrated to the artist’s past and explore sound through giving it form.