hearing

An ear gently swings in the breeze, emitting various sounds – clangs and tinkles. Suddenly the wind catches the parabolic reflector and gives it a spin, and snap go the chimes below.

This oak-sided DNA rises above white flowering anaphalis and when the oak finally weathers and turns silver the whole composition, including the stones, will have a common silver-gray tone. Also planned for the future is another parabolic reflector, a hundred yards away, aimed precisely to exchange sound waves with this one. When this is finished one will be able to whisper across the garden. Waves of vibrating air are transduced into sound through the middle ear – another miracle of the senses.