Rhythm Study I — Flow of music

Rhythm Study I — Flow of music

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Rhythm Study I — Flow of music

Sound of Music

Rhythm Study I — Flow of music

Ink on paper, 2025
20x26 in / 50.8×66 cm

$350.00

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Part of the Rhythm Studies.

This piece plays with the visual structure of musical notation.

The phrase is arranged in reference to staff lines and note-like forms, allowing language to follow the logic of tune rather than conventional composition.

Hidden language layer

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed in music, and in a symphony above all.— Leo Tolstoy

Details
  • Medium: dark blue paper, white and gold calligraphy ink.
  • Size without frame: 19.5x25.5"
  • Size in a frame: 20x26" (50.8×66 cm).
  • Frame material: gold metal.
  • Signed and dated on the reverse. 
  • Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
  • Handwritten in California.
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Field Notes

2025

There’s something I’ve always loved about how music looks—not just how it sounds. Notes on a page, waveforms across a screen, rhythm made visible.

It reminds me of a creative brief we once got in an art and music project. A fellow student uploaded a song to SoundCloud and paired it with a drawing—he shaped the musician’s mustache entirely from the audio waveform. It was clever and energetic, and it stuck with me—not because of the joke, but because sound became something you could see.

This piece came from that memory. I didn’t try to be clever this time—just let the music move me. Paper became silence, ink became notes. Each line feels like a sound has its visual form.

This work values the idea that music isn’t just something you hear—it can be seen, felt, and translated into shapes and lines.

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