With this work, I explore the idea of “potential
music” by disembodying a familiar object of music making – a violin – and using
it as a mold. In my studio, I explore the
need to understand how a thing works, and why we use it, as a way of
investigating that object’s actual
purpose as a tool and symbol in our culture. Emblematic of western music , the
violin is ubiquitous in its role a symbol and tool. It is through a complete
negation of a thing that I can finally come to understand what it means and,
through deconstruction, what it means to the larger community. In this work,
I take the concept of music and consider it as medium – like water – that fills or surrounds a container and takes
its shape. In this way I’ve filled the container (a violin) with heavy dense
metal as way to both negate its purpose a music making device, but also as an
attempt to cast the music of a violin, both past and future.
