From Sound to Color: Where Chasing the Setting Sound Began

This photograph captures the real moment that became Chasing the Setting Sound.

It’s a live performance — a guitarist mid-phrase, mid-emotion — frozen in black and white. At the time, it wasn’t meant to be anything more than documentation. But over time, certain images begin to carry more than what they show. They hold direction.

The sound was already there.
What followed was letting the image dissolve.

Rather than illustrating the photograph, I allowed it to release its visual gravity — the physical details loosening, the sound becoming color, motion becoming atmosphere. The original image didn’t disappear; it stayed present as a referent, an anchor. What changed was the way the moment was allowed to exist.

This is the same moment, translated.

The black-and-white origin matters. It strips the scene down to structure, weight, and gesture — the raw data of the experience. Color enters later, not as decoration, but as resonance. The sound spreads outward, no longer bound to the room or the instrument, but to the emotional arc of the performance itself.

This is part of my method.

I’m not abstracting away from reality — I’m abstracting through it. Each piece begins with something specific and lived, then moves toward a visual language that reflects how sound, memory, and presence actually behave over time.

Chasing the Setting Sound exists in both places at once:
the documented moment, and the space it echoes into.