'Sound Wall,' an installation first created for CAMAC, the Center for Art and Technology, housed in a 17th century monastery in France, has been recreated for the Western Gallery. The installation comprises three spaces, each layered one in front of the other. Each room is made with handmade paper walls embedded with the sound recordings of cells dividing. This work makes direct reference to the physical space of an actual monastery cell and to biological cell division. Ondrizek's recent work, 'Cellular,' is a film and a set of drawings of a blastocyst or a multiple cell embryo. A colleague at Reed College, Steve Black, Professor of Developmental Biology and Zoology., provided Ondrizek with the raw films of the blastocyst. The blastocyst stage is the most significant in the growth of an organism and if disrupted, the organism is permanently damaged. Ondrizek edited these films, stopping each embryo just prior to gestation, and repeated them over and over to mimic the process of cell division and as a gesture of endless "potential."

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