Using the aged question:
"If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, or sees it, did it happen?" My project, "On the Nature of Human Skin" proposes to ask the same question, using sound. Thus, I plan to first create an ice-sculpture to be installed in the canyon area adjacent to the Geisel Library | UCSD campus: Library Walk. (note: see photo's: "blue sky" for conceptual image (sculptural form), and 'wind-chime' sculpture as previous work that links to conceptual images.) Furthermore, the installation includes placing tin's on the dirt ground (e.g. trash can lid's, or baking sheets etc.,) to capture and illuminate sounds as the ice melts naturally. Importantly, by using a series of reverse-wired earphones, I plan to amplify and/or project the dripping sounds onto the Silent Tree, on Library Walk.

> The figure of the actual melting ice (sculpture) will be in the shape of tiny eggs. (see photo of egg mold - the holes will be used as a place to insert the string that will hold the egg when frozen.) Additionally, the ice will be mulit-colored, by using food-dye mixed in water.

links: Stuart Collection | the Silent Tree
http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/StuartCollection/Allen.htm

links Social Architectures | The Invisible Shape of University Past
http://socialarchitectures.pbworks.com/The-Invisible-Shape-of-University-Past

links Camp La Jolla:
http://camplajolla.org/tour.php?id=38

links Herbert's hippopotamus [videorecording] : a story of revolution in paradise / produced, written and directed by Paul Alexander Juutilainen:
http://roger.ucsd.edu/record=b3628864
http://silver0rib.tumblr.com/tagged/Herbert%27s_Hippopotamus%3A_Marcuse_and_Revolution_in_Paradise

links to video | Memorial for UCSD Martyr - Vietnam War Protester:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2007/06/126932.mov