How to Live
2019 156 x 36 x 5 inches unrolled,5 panels mounted as hanging scrollHangs by braided linen cordAcrylic and sumi ink on polyester. Box
How to Live was made for an exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA in Portland, Maine. The gallery's high ceilings allowed me to make a hanging scroll to be like a waterfall of words. The text is from Essays by Michel de Montaigne, his thoughts on how to live a good life. I colored yards of translucent polyester, wrote the words with dip pens and ink and mounted the five layers of fabric as a hanging scroll 13 feet long. Text and colors are visible in the layers like a palimpsest. Since many of us use a computer to communicate and to record, I added circles of gold binary code.
How to Live was made for an exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA in Portland, Maine. The gallery's high ceilings allowed me to make a hanging scroll to be like a waterfall of words. The text is from Essays by Michel de Montaigne, his thoughts on how to live a good life. I colored yards of translucent polyester, wrote the words with dip pens and ink and mounted the five layers of fabric as a hanging scroll 13 feet long. Text and colors are visible in the layers like a palimpsest. Since many of us use a computer to communicate and to record, I added circles of gold binary code.
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