Etched Memory

Diverging from bronze casting to work with aluminum offered a welcome shift — a softer material that invited direct etching and a more intuitive, hand-drawn approach. This cast aluminum gramophone horn became the perfect surface for that process. Its form, with its curved panels and historic presence, echoes an era I never lived through, but feel a curious and playful nostalgia for.

The horn’s ten distinct panels reminded me of something increasingly rare in the streaming age: the 10-track studio album. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd immediately came to mind — an iconic record with a lasting presence across generations. I began drawing intuitively, letting each panel represent one of the ten tracks. The illustrations move left to right, with the final drawing deliberately fading near the horn’s mouth — a subtle nod to the record’s end, a fade-out, and the looping nature of listening.

I wasn’t there when Dark Side of the Moon was released, but its cultural weight, sonic texture, and multigenerational legacy make it feel both distant and familiar. This work is a playful meditation on nostalgia, history, and the intuitive ways in which we connect to things from a time not our own.