The overall Spirit Symphony Series is an intention to explore if sound can create and the relationship sound has with silence, through the portrait image of a female opera singer. As the paintings progress the image echoes through the individual paintings of Spirit Symphony No 2 and No 3, and in Spirit Symphony No 4 she dissolves into the surface of the painting, becoming digital static.
I chose an opera singer because of the level of sound achieved vocally. The high frequency of sound achieved by an opera singer, has the capacity to break glass, a recognised phenomenon of making sound visible. Sound breaks glass due to the fact that sound resonates with the molecular structure of the glass through vibrational intensity, thereby changing the molecular structure of the glass. We do not see sound itself, but we see the effect of sound. Metaphorically this is seen as sound creates. Sound has a relationship with silence and echo`s itself into silence. When there is an echo, we are inclined from an auditory perspective to listen more attentively. The Doppler effect is a scientific principal, described as , the further you move further away from the source of sound the less you will hear . Metaphorically, this forms a parallel for hearing spiritually.