"Sound Wave"

Artist- Jean Shin
Title- "Sound Wave"
Media- Melted 78 rpm records on wooden armature
Dimensions- 5.2ft H x 7.7ft W x 8.8ft D
Date- 2007

Artist Bio- Jean Shin is recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. Her work has been widely exhibited in major and national museums including the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian, and the Museum of Modern Art. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the US, Shin attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Art Description- Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aiums to physically manisfest the ephemerality of music as well as one man's musical tastes, as represented by his personal record collection.

http://jeanshin.com/soundwave.htm

Connection- This piece relates in the sense that it may seem as just a interesting sculpture to look at it has a meaning behind it that makes the viewer have to think about it, chosen because it continues the theme of the exhibit.