CERAMICS

From observing archaeological pieces, many of them found in sacred places as ritual offerings, I have tried to understand the mechanism and construction method of whistles that ‘sing’ in response to the movement of the water they contain.

The purpose of these whistles is to imitate birdsong. Music and musical instruments have served as the links between the feminine and masculine and are a manifestation of the cosmological order. Sound can be understood as an interior and contained experience while sight is the opposite, it is exterior. Walter Ong states “I regard an object, but sound approaches me; the eye reaches, but the ear receives(…) Sight is the sense of the solitary observer, whereas hearing creates a sense of connection and solidarity.”