Sound

The face is rendered with a sense of inner peace and knowing, suggesting that perhaps true understanding of sound goes beyond mere hearing. The warm colors radiating from the neck area – those reds, oranges, and golds – could represent sound emanating from within rather than being received from without. It’s as if the figure is not just experiencing sound, but becoming it. The figure’s lack of ears creates a powerful statement about the nature of sound and our relationship with it. It challenges our assumptions about how we experience and understand sound – must we hear it to know it? The absence of ears forces us to consider sound in its most pure form – as vibration, as energy, as something that can be felt through the whole body, not just heard through our ears.

The serene expression and direct gaze take on new meaning now – they suggest someone who has transcended the traditional boundaries of sensory perception. The shaved head emphasizes this stripped-down, essential quality, while the colorful, feather-like emanations below suggest that sound is something that radiates from within us as much as it comes to us from outside.

It asks us to consider: what does it mean to truly understand something? Must we experience it in the expected way to know it deeply?