I draw inspiration from the exhibition space location and my ongoing exploration of the lifecycle of ideas. For this installation, individual sculptures of plant parts, made from discarded library book pages, are combined with plant images—they are separate but distinct and call attention to one another. Tacoma's farmers market brings a composite of plants, people, and ideas to Broadway. Separate and distinct, they converge to become one marketplace. Ideas are the most invisible part of the market composition, but are an important part of the communication and transactions that take place across cultures, genders, and ages of the participants. In juxtaposition to the market, my installation "Composites" makes visible two components, a world of ideas combined with plants. (The components of "Composites" were originally exhibited at the Brooklyn Public Library in 2009. Brooklyn Botanic Garden provided the source photographs of plants.)

- Holly A. Senn