The Sound of the Soul

The beautiful thing about instruments is that they can evoke such strong emotions in people while being, in themselves, lifeless and inanimate. In the hands of a good musician, an instrument sings as though it were truly alive. In a sense, if you’ve never heard a musical instrument before, there is little to no indication from appearance alone that suggests what an instrument is capable of. In my art project, I tried to hint at the deeper possibility of the violin, as well as revel in the natural beauty of this instrument. The different colors of construction paper inside the violin’s cavity represent the broad range of emotions that this instrument can portray. I made this violin using construction paper, poster board paper, and tooth floss (for the strings).