WORD MATTER

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Word Matter is a metamorphosis of words and books from explicitly historical, quotidian objects to altered organic matter on a monumental scale. A book in and of itself generates meaning by simply existing in a literate culture, recognized as a portable, time-based medium. Literate systems support the repetition of moving our eyes or fingers from left to right or right to left, side to side, or up and down. By deconstructing books and reducing their forms, contradictions are revealed. Suspension frees the viewer from traditional interpretations and offers new ways to decipher meaning in the iterative matter. Yet it also creates a perilous physicality—the weighty cascade of destruction cannot be ignored, and, in the repetition, a new visual system emerges. Displaced spines, pages, and words might be bark, moss, rock formations, waves, landscapes, or any alternative interpretation of kindred matter.