Index #1

2018
Acrylic 

5’ W x 45' H x 6” D​

Hayward Library, Hayward, CA

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The piece is composed of laminated acrylic in alternating layers of blue, yellow and white. Three separate pieces connect all floors of the library’s atrium lobby and read as a singular, continuous sculpture when viewed from afar. Conceptually, the artwork is a construct of thin layers, similar to the many layers of pages that comprise a book. The nested circular elements of the piece are inspired by the cut-out indentations of vintage dictionaries and other reference books, used an early method for “hyper linking” to specific chapters or categories within. For this piece, I explored the overlap between the historical qualities of book pages with the methods and means of modern information consumption. Layering represents an approach and a quality common to many forms of media and became the basis of this work. 

 

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