Hye Yeon Nam

LoveForm

Sound Visualization

LoveForm, five cups as a set, is a digitally personalized sculptural vessel. We each recorded our message – ‘I love you’ – and used Grasshopper, Rhinoceros 3D’s visual programming language, to model the waveforms of each recording as sculptural forms parametrically. Our Grasshopper script draws the waveform of a recording as a curve, divides this curve into segments, translates and rotates these segments around a circle, sweeps the segments into a surface, and then extrudes the surface into a volume. Once we had generated the models, we 3D printed them in plaster and ceramic resin. The ceramic cups were then bisque-fired, glazed, and fully fired. This work is a collaboration with Hye Yeon Nam, Brendan Harmon, and Nasrin Iravani.