Synaesthesia Drawings of the Voice of Alan Watts
Synesthesia Drawings of the Voice of Alan Watts (2019- ongoing) sumi ink and gouache on murillo
Synesthesia Drawings of the Voice of Alan Watts were assembled from sensory recordings of his collected lectures. Watts’s voice carries an exquisite elegance, casting waves of gorgeous cobalt blue, its patterns holding a resonant, effortless balance. Schwartz created 22 drawings, with each mark—both in color and shape—capturing the gesture of sound as it moves through space. For her, sound unfolds in three-dimensional mobiles of color and form, constantly shifting and alive.
She describes her process as “butterfly-netting” the most beautiful-looking sounds and pinning them to paper, preserving their fleeting presence in static form—tracing the ephemeral with marks that hold both movement and stillness at once.
Additional synesthesia series emerge from the sensory experiences of Chopin’s Nocturnes, the voices of Richard Feynman, Oliver Sacks, Richard Feynman, James Baldwin, and the music of Mozart.
