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Reading Room

Reading Room (Big Head Trip)
Installation detail shows Natural Models
3' x 12', Twigs, labels, text

The branching patterns of twigs were used to generate sentence diagrams. Sentences were then produced, based on the diagrams.

Text: "The ideas are strung from sticks and syntax. Their patterns govern my choices. Everything assumes significance. A tangle of grammar can trap brittle twigs and twisted mental constructs. Twisted branches tangle too easily in bundles. Untangling is difficult. The twigs snap when the pressure suddenly increases. Ideas snap under pressure. The maplike nature of twisting branches draws me too quickly into myself. I tangle thoughts. My brain assembles thoughts in a twisted lengthening train. I trap neuron paths and connections. I tangle fragile trains of thought."