We reached out to Hayashi through email to find out more about her levitation project. What is the concept behind your levitation photography? “Today's Levitation” is my ongoing self-portrait-diary ...

he explained the mechanism that allows the levitation. The standing wave creates patterns of high intensity and “quiet” low intensity sound, and the object nestles in one of these quiet areas.

The objects do not float just because they are ... For more on this topic of levitation with air streams, check the ping pong ball levitation machine.