In early 2023, KnowHow a Los Angeles-based architecture studio invited me to visit Don Katz at his new home in West Hollywood. Don is known as the Blind Potter, and is without sight. He is a person who is in his body - with a rich and varied sensory understanding of his environment. With this in mind, Don was finding it difficult to locate his home. With his dependence on ride shares and taxis, Don was sometimes lost.

In response this situation, I designed a fountain to mark the entrance of his home – a piece of sonic wayfinding for the blind and sighted alike. The fountain makes this home audible and findable for Don. It can be tuned by placing objects in the basin, which will raise and lower the pitch of the fountain. As a ceramicist, Don and I discussed adding pottery, ceramic offcasts, found tiles, and sculptural objects that he develops over time. In this way, the fountain is an evolving collaboration. Each added object changes the tone and timbre - the frequency and amplitude of the fountain – creating a personal fingerprint to the sound he now calls home.