Title: Music Taste
Role: Concept Creator, Photographer, Art Director, Set Designer
Description: Music Taste is a conceptual still life that explores the emotional entanglement we experience with sound. Using a fork and tangled earphones styled like spaghetti, the piece plays with the metaphor of music as something we not only consume, but crave, internalize, and often get lost in.
The image blurs the line between sustenance and stimulation, inviting the viewer to reflect on the rituals, identities, and memories that get wrapped around the sounds we love. Whether it’s the beat of our childhood, a breakup anthem, or the playlist we use to survive the day, music is rarely passive. It feeds us, loops us in, and sometimes, ties us up.
As Creative Director and Photographer, I developed the concept, crafted the composition, and captured the shot using a minimalist, high-contrast style. The bold red background was chosen to evoke intensity and emotion, hinting at the visceral way sound can trigger memory or feeling.
Artist Statement
My visual work blends the surreal with the sentimental. I like to take everyday objects — headphones, kitchen tools, and reframe them into metaphor-rich compositions that speak to identity, connection, and cultural memory.
With Music Taste, I wanted to visualize how personal and tangled our relationship with music really is. Music doesn’t just play in the background, it shapes how we feel, how we connect, and how we remember. The fork and earphones become a humorous but intimate symbol of that craving. A reminder that sometimes the things we “consume” the most don’t come from the fridge, but from a playlist.
This piece, like much of my work, plays with visual puns and poetic tension. I aim to create images that are strange but familiar, simple but layered — pieces that start a conversation about where meaning lives in the mundane.