I recently discovered Eva Schindling's fascinating work in sculpture, where she explores the physical shape that spoken words can take. Her work was featured in Etapes:176, the January 2010 issue, which focuses on information design.
As she describes on the Boulder Pavement blog,
Liquid Sound Collision is an aesthetic and interpretive study of the interactions that happen when recorded voices encounter computer-simulated fluids. In a digital environment, audio input can have a more obvious impact on the shape and distortion of liquids than in reality.Each study sends two words that can be thought of as poetic opposites - chaos and order, body and mind – as vibration source into a fluid simulation. The waves created by the sound files run towards each other, they collide and interfere with one another’s patterns. The moments of these collisions are then translated into 3D models that are printed as real sculptures.
The chosen words that depict dualistic world views are opposites, yet are displayed as the turbulent flow that arises between the two extremes.
I really like the way that Eva has used scientific technology - sending sound waves into a fluid simulation - to create flowing forms that are delicate and elegant.
She talks more about the creation process in her blog entry, Sketch : Liquid Sound Collision.
