Singing Bowls is a series of porcelain bowls balanced delicately on pedestals. When a motion sensor attached to each pedestal is activated, a wooden ball taps the edge of the bowl causing the bowl to emanate a deep, resonant sound. The bowls create unique sound patterns as participants engage the work in time and space.

Playful communication and spontaneous interaction happen in an intimate, personal scale–between the audience and the work–as well as in the larger social scale of the gallery. Within this open, unfixed environment the audience, an individual or a group, creates the rhythms of sound within the gallery space.

By triggering the activity from the objects, the audience is longer composed merely of viewers but collaborators. The audience is turned into the creator and, simultaneously perhaps finds and sees a new way to experience their connection with a work.

The abstraction of sound leaves a lot of room for the audience to interpret and complete their relationship with a work. A single sound could be the miniscule sound of dew falling from one leaf to another; the dripping rainwater collected in bowls from a leaking roof; or the sound of a frog jumping into a pond.

The open work transforms the audience into the creator, the tangible into the intangible, the fixed into flux. Singing Bowls is in the state of Trans–Shift and change. Nothing is fixed, there is only potential.