Oversized bronze cast books seemingly topple off a prominent gateway seemingly blowing off there perch by a sudden gust of wind, in the process of falling, opening, and loosing pages in clumps. The bronze pages, etched with print taken from books written by local writers, are frozen in a moment, where they are blowing out of the books. They fly over the intersection, and down University Ave in flurries, catching on the sides of buildings, lampposts, poles, and signs, hovering above pedestrians below.

This artwork is inspired by the roll of the University in the neighborhood, the old school, now community center, near the gateway and it's yard, the neighborhood's association with knowledge passed down through print, and the literary heritage of "The Ave." In this artwork, I look to create an image which references the merging of the artistic, radical and progressive ideas preserved in print, with the academic research and thought preserved in publication, to create a stream of imagined complementary, and contrasting, ideas flowing with, and against, the traffic of social thought.