repurposed books, 12’ x 12’ x 12’
site-specific installation for
Art Kiosk, Fung Collaboratives, Redwood City, CA
“Incubator” is a visualization of the enrichment a book-filled environment creates. Growing up today, in a time of broken civil discourse and heightened anxiety about the future, the worlds that books present, and the creative thinking they stimulate, are needed more than ever to support imagining beyond current circumstances. “Incubator” is composed of thousands of stacked book “towers”, supported by a “foundation” of books. The empty spaces between the towers are filled with a delicate cut paper network of words and images culled from a variety of books, visually connecting the knowledge held within. As this paper network intensifies in size and complexity, it appears to rise and expand into a buoyant mass of potential, akin to the layering of ideas that accumulate from immersing oneself in books.
exterior view at night
interior view with collection of books by and about women, loaned by Redwood City Library
view of ceiling
detail: queens, princesses, and zombies
paper network detail
viewers