ARTWORK

Surfaces of Echo
2025

Sumi, Pigment, Acrylic paint,
Japanese paper, tracing paper
1091×788mm
420×297mm

Surfaces of Echo is a painting that attempts to materialize the residue of sound—not as line, but as surface; not as clarity, but as suggestion.
The process begins with a sonograph—an image derived from sound—rendered in gold on traditional Japanese washi paper.
But this form is not a precise diagram; it is a soft, shimmering field—a trace of something once heard.
A layer of tracing paper is placed over this golden imprint, veiling the sound’s memory beneath a translucent skin.
Upon this surface, the same form is rearticulated in ink—not with a brush, but using a ball of crumpled washi paper.
The mark becomes a pressed gesture, a textured surface that absorbs chance, pressure, and silence.
What emerges is a blurred presence—uncertain in outline, but undeniable in weight.
The form flickers between appearance and disappearance, like a voice just below the threshold of comprehension.
This work is a space for what exists before language, before contour.
It offers a surface for emotion before naming, for sound before structure—a painting built not with lines, but with reverberations.