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Intricate musical artwork is music to the eyes

Posted by / May 8, 2012

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Part of the beauty of a great piece of music is the images or emotions it brings to mind, but artist Erika Iris Simmons has gone one step further and made the music itself the medium for her artwork.

As Katie Hosmer at My Modern Met explained:

For these pieces that she calls Paperworks, Simmons meticulously cuts out musical notes and pastes them back together in stunning portraits, patterns, and shapes in her attempt to, “visualize the transcendence felt in beautiful music.”

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Full story at √-iri5 via My Modern Met.

Music and art.

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  • Anonymous

    Well. Some songs really inspires a person to do such thing. good thing it made you so expressive though art.