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Suri Jiang
Voice Is Not the Only Language
2025

Moving Image / sound / listening




01 — Sound Drawing

Visualising Fragmented Sound

Pastel on paper
Listening experiment, 2025


I started drawing sound because I wanted to see what I was hearing.

When I listen through my hearing aid, sound does not always arrive as something complete or clear. Some parts are louder, some disappear, and sometimes I only notice small fragments.

Instead of trying to draw what a sound “looks like”, I used colour, lines, pressure and movement to record how different sounds felt to me while I was listening. The drawings became a way of tracing what I noticed, missed or could not identify.
Figure 1
Sound drawing, detail

Photography by Adrian Joyner

Figure 2
Sound drawing, detail

Photography by Adrian Joyner