Bone Whisper (2026) amplifies the familiar experience of vibration and transforms it into an intimate, bodily form of listening. At the center of the piece is a stone that vibrates through bone conduction. When touched, the vibration travels through the hand, the chest, and the head, felt as if it were coming from inside the body itself. Listening no longer happens through the ears alone, but through skin, muscles, and bones.

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Visitors are invited to hold the stone, move it across the body, bring it close to the chest or face, or share it with others. As the stone changes position, the vibration changes too. Sensation shifts, attention drifts, and perception becomes spatial and embodied. In doing so, the work treats vibration as a form of knowledge. It challenges the idea that understanding happens only through vision or language, proposing instead that learning can take place through touch and bodily sensation. The stone becomes both an interface and a pedagogical tool, translating invisible forces into felt experience.

The stone vibrates in different patterns that form a subtle language. Pulses, pauses, and silences act as a grammar. Irregular bursts can heighten alertness or uncertainty. Barely perceptible vibrations invite the body to complete what is missing. Longer moments of stillness build anticipation, allowing sensation to linger. Meaning emerges not through words, but through rhythm, intensity, and time.

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Developed this year especially for the Madrid Design Festival in collaboration with Francisco Estivallet, Bone Whisper draws from Joana Burd’s research in haptic aesthetics. The piece proposes touch as a way of listening and invites the body to become a resonant surface where communication is felt, shared, and imagined.