The Word Engine

Here is a new piece (24" H x 35" W) for the Tompkins County Public Library's 10th anniversary exhibit, in which artists are asked to imagine the library of 2060. Mine is not a literal imagining, of course, but it builds on the mobiles-as-poetry idea I was developing last year, now with a human touch. I see it as an expression of the increasingly abstract and disembodied way we interact with our environment, with language, and with each other. I've realized that I now see everything through the lens of technology, and while this has brought faraway places much closer, it has also made my immediate surroundings more distant.