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Seo Hye Lee, Sphere of Sound, 2016-2017. Image courtesy the artist.

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This work is displayed in landscape orientation in a six foot tall by nine foot long lightbox with a black frame. The lower edge of the lightbox’s frame is at doorknob height level.

This work is composed of six enlarged drawings displayed as if in a square grid with three drawings on top and three on the bottom. The sketches done mostly in pencil or pencil crayon. Each has a caption listed on the exhibition label. The captions will be read out before the individual drawing descriptions. The works will be described clockwise from top left.

Oct 17th, 2016, 14:18 – Quiet in general except for drilling, drilling sound, car engine running sound.

This drawing shows a series of tiny loops in grey pencil, all very tight in a staggered zigzag. Superimposed on top of this are three horizontal eyebrow-like shapes of a larger zigzag in a brownish orange pencil crayon. Drawn onto these shapes is a thin black pen line which zigzags on the orange and draws a line connecting the three shapes.

Jan 26th, 2017, 13:18 @ living room – Children yelling outside.

Within a square formation there is a cluster of over 200 dark red and dark blue dots, which appear to have been made with a marker. They are randomly placed, so that they are dispersed relatively equally.

Oct 26th, 2016, 19:50 @ restaurant waiting in queue – LOUD, people chatting.

This drawing shows a square block all coloured in. It is filled with two dense horizontal bands of looping reddish purple and orange pencil crayon. Inside the larger gaps of the loops the space has been filled with horizontal loops made by thin black pen.

Jan 10th, 2017, 18:45 @ studio 4 – Drilling sound, footsteps, someone talking on phone.

This drawing shows three dark blue columns of loops. The loops in each column are drawn horizontally. The vertical columns are spaced equally in the square area. Behind this are random slashes of vertical loops which are smaller in size and a light grey pencil colour. Interspersed between the first and second columns are grey pencil marks forming eight square dots.

Jan 8th, 2017, 15:08 @ kitchen – Kettle boiling sound, click sound.

In this drawing densely packed green loops form a square shape. They travel in a zigzag from left to right. Faintly visibly underneath the green is a dense block of light pink loops. On top of this, at the right, is a purple slash taking up half the height of the square of the loops.

Oct 29th, 2016, 12:42 – Sharp ambulance sound on street.

This drawing is on a light blue square, with faint gaps as if patched together from different pieces of paper such as sticky notes. The drawing is in dark red marker. Large loose loops form a square shaped cloud. One pass of loops which is much more chaotic than others, is bold as if it has been drawn slowly. Light red loops and scribbles are behind it, as if the marker moved over the paper quite quickly.