Re-verb-erations: In Search of Interdisciplinary Language presents the work of my typography students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and my personal ceramic work. It was exhibited at the Loomis Gallery of Mansfield University, PA, 2016. The show was curated with the idea of interdisciplinarity, where typography aimed to visualize transference of sound, noise, silence, and ambiance while the ceramic work made sound tangible. Clay, one of the ancient materials, can speak equally in a pragmatic and metaphoric language, just as music and typography can. Sound expressing itself in written and oral forms, makes Shakespearean Sonnets sing and typographic TEXTure whisper.
The show was enriched by a collaborative work with metal art installation by Marianna Mezhibovskaya. Metal structures alluded to the bars of musical notation, rhythmical structure of the entire show, and a typographic grid that created another lever of intertwining the languages.
Acoustically, reverberation is being possible only when sound bounces off of various inner chambers. Interdiciplinarity creates a space where disciplines join as one, forgetting the time when they were compartmentalized and torn apart. Constructed from particles, pigments, pixels, and sound overtones to the most profound meta structures and concepts, the work in this show expresses how each discipline, laden with its specific philosophies, terminology, tools, and skills echoes with other disciplines’ vocabulary and function, points to the interconnectedness of the world.