Breaking the Code
12" x 12" etching
$95

Years ago, after reading an article about a scientist discovering that elephants communicate with low frequency acoustics, I felt the need to do some sort of image. This is the initial result of that need. I made the elephant coming out of the picture frame and a segment of texture below indicating an audio graph of sound waves.

The title stems from how researchers could now begin to understand some of the more mystifying behavior of elephants. For example, when viewed from above, one family of elephants would react to a situation of another elephant family a mile or so away. The low frequency vocalization travels through the bush much more efficiently than high range sound waves.