Sound Data Drawings

Six drawings derived from sounds collected from social media about North Philadelphia and translating them into patterns using spectrograms.

Year: 2020

Materials: Inkjet Prints

Dimensions: 24 x 18

Location: Tiger Strikes Asteroids Philadelphia

  • A digital artwork featuring three stylized insects: a grasshopper, a butterfly, and a dragonfly, set against a patterned background with plant motifs and pixelated textures.
  • Collage featuring a black and white photo of a woman with sunglasses, surrounded by decorative purple lace patterns, floral motifs, and abstract shapes, with a patterned border at the top and bottom.
  • A colorful, artistic illustration featuring a cityscape with buildings, large leafy branches, a bright yellow sun, and a silhouette of a person riding a horse. The image has a vibrant palette of yellow, pink, green, and black.
  • Digital collage featuring a cityscape with a billboard, decorative elements such as white flowers, green leaves, and abstract patterns with a vintage aesthetic.
  • Digital art poster featuring a potted plant with large flowers, a rabbit, and abstract elements in purple, pink, and orange hues.
  • A stylized digital artwork featuring a large full moon in the sky, with dark silhouettes of trees and flying bats. The foreground depicts various insects, including moths or butterflies, in bright colors with patterned wings, set against a dark background with abstract design elements.
A colorful, stylized illustration of a jungle scene with three insects: a praying mantis, a butterfly, and a cricket, set against green foliage and decorative borders.
Digital artwork featuring a suburban house with a large peach-colored sun in the background, surrounded by white and green floral designs with decorative elements, including birds and abstract patterns.
Illustration of a night scene with bugs, insects, and a large yellow moon, featuring abstract plants and patterns.
Digital artwork depicting a city scene with trees, a large sun, a horse and rider silhouette, and vibrant colors of yellow, pink, and purple.
A collage of a black and white photo of people working in a field, surrounded by purple decorative lace and floral patterns, with a beige background.
Digital artwork of a potted plant with pink and purple flowers, a white rabbit, and abstract colorful patterns and dots in the background, with the word 'FAVOUR' at the top.

Project Process

For "Macuto/#Macuto," images tagged #macuto on Instagram were geographically clustered and analyzed for color. Dominant shades determined the patterns cut into translucent sheets.

  • Two green digital rain patterns resembling computer code on black backgrounds with gray borders.
  • Two side-by-side digital screens displaying pixelated green and black patterns with checkered borders.
  • Two side-by-side pixelated digital images with green and black patterns, resembling maze-like designs.
  • Two pixelated digital screens with green patterns and gray borders.
  • Two computer-generated digital patterns with green pixel designs on a transparent background
  • Two pixelated images side by side, each with a green and black patterned design contained within a border of small gray squares.