Interactive Installation
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A Scroll of Birth and Soundwaves
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A-H-N
Digital Art
Community Work
Artist Declaration —
Audrey Doh (b. 1996, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist who repurposes technology as vessels for ritual, tradition, and collective meaning-making. Her work investigates enduring cultural practices, exploring how communities construct alternative belief systems when scientific measurement encounters the unmeasurable. Through sensor-based interactions, embedded systems, and projected media, Doh creates quiet, contemplative rituals that invite audiences to move beyond monolithic reality toward multiple, intersecting systems of meaning.
Why the Sea is Salt (2025)
Materials
Wood, acrylic, 3D printed PLA, stepper motor, slider potentiometer, ocean salt
Dimensions
16 x 18 x 4 inches
Skills
Rotary mechanism, 3D modeling and printing, servo motor control, breadboard circuitry
Description
“Why the Sea is Salt” is a kinetic visualization of the Korean etiological fable of the same name—a tale of a magical millstone that endlessly produces whatever is fed into it. The story follows a selfish older brother who steals the millstone from his generous younger sibling, only to drown at sea, sinking with the millstone that continues to pour out an eternal flood of salt.
In this installation, the audience is invited to interact by sliding between the beginning and end of the story, controlling the pace at which the millstone turns. As the mill accelerates, salt spills forth, accumulating into a growing topography of excess. The sound of grinding salt and the mechanical hum of the motor, paired with the shifting black-and-white landscape of granular particles, create a multisensory reflection on human indulgence.
The final form becomes a physical testament to unchecked greed—the central lesson of the fable—rendered visible and visceral.