On the significance of synesthesia in her multimedia practice, Norwegian painter, sculptor, and performance artist Tori Wrånes shares, “Both the voice and paintings contain emotion because both are actions that come out of the body." Her Singing Paintings and Handmade Acoustics series hearken back to the visual function of sound in her performances: "When I sing in a non-verbal language, it’s like sculpting.” Voice, for Wrånes, is a material matter that can be shaped and can shape others. The artist maintains the influence of performance and the body in her works by combining voice, sound, pigment, water, and heat to produce rhythmic representations of a moment.

A continuation of her multi-sensory process, the Garden series was developed under the unique circumstances at the onset of the pandemic. With the city suddenly shut down and her scheduled performance cancelled, Wrånes found herself in Copenhagen, uncertain of whether or when she could return home to Oslo. This solitary moment offered the artist an opportunity to produce these improvisational works on paper. Within the gardens of the performance venue, she experimented with the elements of the environment by combining markers that react with water. Leaving the works outside over night, she invited the shifting atmosphere to alter the composition.

Piercing the frame of the work, a bronze ring alludes to the uncanny role of the body in the artist's practice, while also signifying permanence and continuity—an action that cannot be undone or the persistence of life no matter the circumstances.