Stay Connected is an environmental process installation, a water-filled resonating ellipse shape in the center, which has two main sources and represents a multidimensional network of connections. The translation of heartbeat into frequency foregrounds the ways in which perception and emotion are entangled with vibration. To resonate with another is to experience one’s boundaries as porous—to allow one’s own rhythm to be altered by the presence of another. The installation extends these inquiries into the physiological domain, transforming the body’s internal rhythm into a shared sonic- and light event, can be read as an inquiry into intersubjectivity through sound. Resonance here is both material and humane. To remain attuned to another’s frequency requires openness, reciprocity, and vulnerability. It gestures toward an understanding of empathy not as emotional identification but as vibrational correspondence: a continual negotiation of rhythm and difference. In a contemporary context marked by digital mediation and sensory fragmentation, Stay Connected offers a model of connection grounded in the physical realities of sound and the shared temporalities of the body. The resonating surface becomes a visual metaphor for the space between people—a delicate, ever-changing landscape shaped by mutual presence and exchange. Surrounding the resonated water, a field of sand introduces a contrasting register of stillness and silence. The sand grounds the installation, evoking a state of meditative awareness and the liminal threshold between sound and absence, presence and void. It also recalls the desert as a site of reflection—a terrain where silence amplifies inner resonance. In this meditative environment, the space becomes both an observation and an experience of coexistence: an acoustic echo of empathy, vulnerability, and shared rhythm and transforms an intimate signal into a collective experience.
