Speechless
Speechless
(A permanent site-specific sculpture for the Lafayette Library, Lafayette, California)
2008-Present
A giant wavering bronze stack of paper rises. Had one taken a page from every book in the library collection, stacking one on top of the other, a stack of paper equivalent in height to this sculpture would result.
The towering sculpture bends and teeters reaching precarious proportions. Wind has caught the top pages blowing them across the outdoor plaza, up and through the stairway corridor. Some pages furl in mid air, flying above the walkways while others wrap around trellis posts, past the library walls.
The pages waft through the walkways. Each fluttering page is etched with layers of text and graphics relating to all pages ever printed. Pages are etched with imagery scanned directly from books from all sections of a library’s collection.
The metamorphosis of how we learn is captured by the dynamic, dreamlike flight of the bronze pages soaring gracefully through the air.
Date: October 24, 2013