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Billy Patrick, First Prototype of first 4 measures of “Star Spangeled Banner”, 4 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide by 1 foot deep, metal regular music stand, 3D Resin printed, Paint, 2024
WG Patrick is a Detroit-based artist who sculpts with time, sound, and light. His work compresses four measures of music into... a 1.6-second burst, transforming vibration into form and perception into an act of synesthesia. When a flash of light strikes each sculpture, sound and reflection coincide—producing an event that exists only for an instant. The forms that remain, seen here as still images, are the architecture that holds that moment.
Rooted in Bergson’s Duration and Vattimo’s “weak thought,” Patrick’s practice treats perception as interpretation, not certainty. Each sculpture is both instrument and fossil—a trace of listening waiting to be re-activated by attention. The viewer’s awareness becomes the final medium, completing the circuit between sound, sight, and thought.
Patrick lives and works in Detroit, developing installations where art functions less as object than as experiment—an open space where synesthetic experience becomes a model for empathy and understanding. Read more
Detail of Second set of 4 measures of “Star Spandled Banner”
4 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide by 1 foot deep
Regular music stand, 3D resin, Paint
2024
4 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide by 1 foot deep
Regular music stand, 3D resin, Paint
2024
Detail of anti-matter back of the second set of 4 measures of “Star Spandeled Banner”
4 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide by 1 foot deep
Regular music stand, 3D Resin, Paint
2024
4 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide by 1 foot deep
Regular music stand, 3D Resin, Paint
2024
Study first 4 measure of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
9 feet tall by 8 feet wide by 4 feet deep
Plexiglass, wood, foam, metal, paint
2023
9 feet tall by 8 feet wide by 4 feet deep
Plexiglass, wood, foam, metal, paint
2023
These sculptures are built for a moment you cannot see in a photograph.
For 1.6 seconds, a flash of light and a burst of sound strike together—four measures of music compressed into pure sensation. The viewer doesn’t observe the work; they inhabit it. What follows is silence and after-image, the echo of a perception too brief to name.
Each piece begins as a musical phrase translated into geometry: loops and lattices that record vibration in physical space. The resin holds the memory of sound; the light restores it. What you see here is the resting state of an event—structures designed to host disappearance.
My aim is to cultivate a language of synesthesia, where sound becomes sight and thought becomes tactile. The sculptures invite interpretation rather than explanation. Meaning arises only through participation—when the viewer feels perception itself becoming the medium.
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