4%.

What comes to your mind when this number is presented? Ivy league acceptance rates? Health risks? In my situation, this percentage represents the number of college freshmen who go abroad.

As I board the plane to Italy, I don’t know what I should expect. I'm anxious but I cannot pass up the opportunity to study art at the heart of the Renaissance. And as I disembark, I close my eyes. Unfamiliar noises fill my ears. Strange scents, languages I have never heard before. When I walk around this new city, I focus on the interaction between the strange rocky pavement and vehicles on them. Such an insignificant and unnoticed feature suddenly becomes a bewildering inconsistency compared to back home. Then, unexpectedly, the loud chimes of the afternoon bell jolts me out of my concentration. And as I listen, the last chime rings to a B flat note. As I connect my musical background from home, I try to visualize sound in a manner I understand. So, I turn back to my knowledge on chladni patterns (various patterns created through the vibration of fine sand particles on a metal plate through different units of frequency) and create the pattern of the B flat note into a 1,975 Hz frequency. Throughout my artistic process, I began to familiarize myself with to foreign as I start discover a new world sound through art.