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ARCHEOLOGY OF SKY FOUND OBJECTS
ARCHIVER
2023
FOUND ARCHIVER, LINEAR ACUTATOR, COLOR SENSOR, SPEAKER
Archeology of the Sky – Found Objects is a series of real-time sound sculptures that respond to analog weather data embedded in wooden structures situated within architectural spaces. The work invites us to embody atmosphere itself as a sculpting force of our materiality.
This piece incorporates a mid-20th-century wooden filing cabinet, an object historically central to the architecture of bureaucracy. Designed in the era of corporate modernism, such cabinets represented order, permanence, and authority—repositories of law, governance, and the paper-based systems that shaped daily life. Their austere, rectilinear form reflected ideals of efficiency and neutrality, even as they became symbols of bureaucracy’s opacity and control.
Reframed within Archeology of the Sky, the cabinet becomes both cultural and ecological archive. At its surface, the oak wood carries tree rings shaped by decades of climatic rhythms—rainfall, sunlight, and growth inscribed as lines of memory. Through the principles of dendroclimatology, these variations in width and color are read by a color sensor coded by Macía, then translated into sound waves. A V-Slot Mini V Linear Actuator, programmed with an Arduino stepper motor, guides the sensor across the cabinet’s wooden planes, rendering the invisible traces of atmosphere as audible presence.
Here, the bureaucratic archive and the climatic archive collapse into one another. What once stored human documents of control and order now discloses the deeper, nonhuman record of climate history. The sculpture transforms matter into resonance, celebrating sound, atmosphere, and the intimate ways environment inscribes itself into both our cultural artifacts and the materials that sustain them.
BASEBALL BAT
2023
KINETIC REAL TIME SOUND SCULPTURE
Baseball Bat uses a linear actuator, V-stand, color sensor, and speaker to transform an everyday object into a real-time sound sculpture. The work explores the visible climate lines embedded in wooden baseball bats, translating the imprints of growth, climate, and solar activity into audible frequencies. By making these traces perceptible, the piece reveals how atmospheric memory is inscribed even in the most ordinary materials of human culture.
The bat itself carries a rich cultural history. A Louisville Slugger–style wooden bat, traditionally made of ash or maple, it represents over a century of American sporting identity.
Within this sculpture, the bat becomes more than a sporting artifact. It is both ecological archive and cultural symbol: a tree cut and shaped into an emblem of national mythology, now re-activated as a vessel of planetary time. The work brings into conversation the dual imprints carried in its grain—climate rhythms embedded by sun, soil, and rain, and cultural histories inscribed by human play and projection.
CHAIR
2 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION
This sound sculpture incorporates a Mission-style oak desk chair, a design rooted in the American Arts and Crafts movement of the early 20th century. Once emblematic of honesty, durability, and democratic values, this style furnished libraries, offices, and civic institutions, projecting authority, permanence, and trust.
Reframed within Archeology of the Sky, the chair becomes more than a utilitarian object of American cultural history—it becomes an instrument. Outfitted with a linear actuator, color sensor, and speaker, its wooden surface is read as a climatic archive, its visible grain and growth lines translated into real-time sound. The piece transforms the chair into a conduit where atmosphere, material memory, and cultural symbolism converge.
Here, the oak is not only furniture but a recording of weather and time—its rings shaped by light, water, and climate. By embedding this found object into the series, the work asks how everyday materials carry both ecological and cultural imprints: how the same wood that embodied ideals of stability in American institutions also holds within it the subtle inscriptions of planetary history.