Gravitational Tabla Waltz - by Seema Lisa Pandya 2023 is hand crafted by Seema Lisa Pandya. This piece is inspired by blackholes and the discovery by the Keck Observatory of blackholes interacting and merging displaying an exchange of forces that make up the fabric of reality. The piece is made from used tabla pudis (the skins of the Indian classical tabla drum) donated by tabla schools and professional tabla percussionists. Each round 'pudi' has had hundreds of hours of concentrated energetic rhythmic practice by musicians until the skin is no longer usable. "I was once a former student learning to play the tabla. When I hear the sound of the tabla (especially the deeper bhya drum) and was taught different rhythmic patterns indicative to classical Indian music, I experience these sounds visually as a rhythmical "push-pull" "inhale-exhale" balance that is a fundamental building block of natural forms. Reclaimed leather tabla drumheads, acrylic pant, and 13 ply FSC certified non emitting sustainable maple. 4’-6’ x 3’-0” x 4”.