Calling for Visibility
2026 (In Development)
4-Channel Embodied Sound Installation, Reclaimed Campus Infrastructure
Outside the booth, a restless soundscape fills the corridor. Neglected as mobile phones became ubiquitous, this quiet architectural relic refuses to disappear. It is placing a collective call to humanity, a struggling mix of persistent telephone rings, dry chimes, and the deep wooden resonance of its own physical frame, crying out simply to be seen and heard.
When you step inside and close the door, the heavy world outside is cut away, leaving only a pure chime grounded on the floor.
Lifting the receiver reveals a voice trying desperately to reassemble itself. Having been silent for so long, its words stumble between the excitement and nervousness of finally being noticed. A motif repeatedly tries to form a coherent thought, then falters, hesitates, and reorganizes. In this fragile struggle, we recognize our own shared unease: the disorientation in a fast-accelerating world, the quiet terror of becoming obsolete, and the constant ache to remain visible.
The telephone becomes a shared resonance between the relic and the human. It gently reminds us that “usefulness” is not the sole measure of existence. Like this enduring booth, we too can step away from relentless productivity, pause in stillness, and simply allow ourselves to be.
YOURSELF
2026–2027 (MFA Thesis in Progress)
Single-Visitor Interactive Sound Installation | Distance & Infrared Sensors, Microcontroller
This is a space that operates independently, transcending the three-dimensional world and serving as a mirror of the human subconscious and inner energy fields. While the operation of the spatial installation does not rely on visitors, the state of “Becoming” within the field is highly susceptible to the bodily actions of those present. Accommodating one visitor at a time eliminates social performance anxiety and visual surveillance, allowing individuals to explore auditory boundaries at their own pace. Moving away from early five-element frameworks, the architecture operates across a triadic relational model:
Being: A continuous fixed-track acoustic foundation retaining a constant baseline presence without requiring motion-triggering. Its timbre remains stable, modulating only volume and spatial proportion.
Thought: Real-time acoustic activity and localized directions driven by bodily gestures and distance.
Becoming: Temporal accumulation and spatial residual feedback emerging from the interaction of Being and Thought routed through delay networks.
The system explicitly prioritizes physical stillness: when movement ceases, thought gradually fades, allowing “Being” itself to continue the process of “Becoming”. In a world that keeps pushing us forward, choosing to slow down takes real self-awareness. This piece creates the conditions to turn inward, be with yourself, and simply exist in the moment. [↑ Return ]
