Sand Rhythms: Paintings by Andrea Yeh

I usually walk along beaches with my eyes glued to the ground, in ascination of the music the water creates with the sand. When the sunshine illuminates the scene, there is a symphony of reflection and refraction as the light interacts with the waves and granules of rocks and minerals. Every stretch of sand on each beach sings a unique tune at every moment, colored by the weather, time of day, and time of year. This series is about capturing a few of those moments in their entirety, showcasing the rhythm, texture, and dynamics of ocean waves playing their instrument. I took an interdisciplinary approach to this series, starting with painting in vibrant acrylic colors to capture the wonder I experience when observing beach sand. Each painting was then paired with an accompanying AI-generated instrumental track created using prompts specific to each work, reflecting one additional transformation of interpretation from nature to human and now to AI and echoing my deep appreciation for nature, humanity, and technology.

Andrea Yeh is a painter and meditation teacher based in Brookline, MA. Her art practice is an extension of her meditation practice and vice versa, resulting in work that is an expression of deep focus and connectedness. By blending realism with abstraction, she translates the mysteries, surprises, and beauty found around us into vibrant acrylic and watercolor compositions, all imbued with a subtle lens of logic and reason from her interdisciplinary background in the social sciences, mathematics, and humanities.