After Orpheus (2025)
Mixed media sculpture
After Orpheus is a mixed media sculpture that combines steel piano wire with ceramics and electronics to produce acoustically amplified sound without speakers. Visitors may additionally interact with the sculpture by holding their ear against a paper cup placed along the vibrating wire.
This sculpture is part of a body of work (in progress) in which ceramic vessels are activated through a variety of physical means. Although this sculpture could be also placed outdoors and activated by the wind, here the indoor installation relies instead on electromagnetic activation (via e-bow).
The sculpture takes inspiration from the long tradition of aeolian instruments activated by the wind and the myth of Orpheus’s lyre, said to have moved stones.
