Sound, Mind, Vision.
I’ve always believed there’s an unspoken power carried in real life conversation, something more sentimental, condensed between words and sound. Through the course of my time as a graphic designer turned installation and fashion designer, I’ve witnessed how the combination of digital and physical can enhance the human condition and produce transcendental experiences. Aura’s vision - to create a world where people can capture moments for what they truly are - brought these two ideas together. By marrying physical with digital, Aura brings new life to one of our fundamental human activities - conversation.
Mappiing Emotion in Color and Form
Initial sketches(May,2021)
Initial sketches(May,2021)
My journey at Aura began as a conceptual designer sketching out ideas and conceptualizing how we might abstract emotion. Our visual aesthetic naturally took shape as we began to better understand sound’s sonic qualities ebb and flow. Our digital product—an audiovisual clip—has two components: first, the audio a moment and second, the abstract visualization of changes in volume, pace, tone and emotion. While an Aura is transported and produced in the digital realm, it has inseparable ties from the real-world — where moments are recorded and their emotional flow and color are captured through sound.
Emotion in Space(Aug 2021 - april 2022)
I began by recording my everyday conversations. As these memories were slowly transformed into Aura during the experiments in our lab, I could now visualize interpersonal communication and emotional flow directly from conversations. Both the reconciliation and battle of intellect and emotion between speakers are shown, rapid changes and outflows almost too passionate for the digital world— carefully curated, operating in defense. An Aura can function as cutting edge sophisticated tech while also serving as an art piece that is playful and thought provoking. Bringing Aura to the physical space takes that experience to new shareable, sociable, and empathetic dimensions.
New York is a Balancing Art