This piece is titled Acousticks and is meant to signify a pair of over-ear headphones. In a class activity I was excited by my classmate’s use of earbuds and wanted to incorporate music into my next piece. I decided to transform earbuds by making a piece of 3D art, since I typically only use two-dimensional media. Listening to music is one of my favorite things to do, I look to it as a release as well as a means of finding inspiration. In some ways I think that music is one of our greatest developments as a species. I wanted to communicate that through natural/biophilic elements both because I wanted to explore materiality with mostly natural materials, and also communicate the musical inspiration that has been rooted in natural sounds. I changed it from earbuds to over-ear headphones because I wanted more surface area to work with around the ears. I wanted the earpieces to emphasize the meaning of them as conduits for music. I represented this through various flowers from my garden. I constructed a basket-like shape out of wood chips that I hot glued to a piece of cardboard to build each earpiece. I hot glued the flowers into the basket and connected the two pieces through several vines and branches I collected from the garden as well. Once I connected the two pieces and made the frame of the headphones, I realized I wanted to create a head portion that could house the headphones. I decided to take the shade off my desk lamp and then set it upside down and on top of a different shade-less lamp. I did this to create a head shape that could also house a light source. The light source is meant to represent the stimulation that comes with listening to music, and the flowers growing outward from that represent the inspiration and growth that I feel from it as well.