Traffic of Ideas

2005

(A site-specific sculpture for the Seattle Arts Commission)

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 and down the street. The artwork references the merging of the artistic, radical and progressive ideas preserved in print, with the 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.