Cyanotypes, 315 × 315 mm
Collective exhibition "Investigating the Big Blue"
Kunstraum, ZHdK Zurich (CH), 2024

How to describe a landscape through its vibration?

Amorgos is constantly shaped by wind and sea, sun and salt, rumbles and chants. Learning about the 1956 earthquake and tsunami that devastated it, made that sense of vibration even more present. I wanted to find a way to make those frequencies visible.

Inspired by Chladni plates, I built an oscillating system: a speaker, a transparent surface, sand collected on the island. I played field recordings of Amorgos through the plate and let the sand arrange itself into the patterns produced by each frequency. Then I fixed those patterns onto paper using cyanotype. Sound becomes image and light holds what the ear once heard.