Textural,
a site-specific installation, challenges viewers traversing an urban
landscape
to contemplate the life of the mind. Senn uses pages from discarded
library
books to create textures; the abstract forms are metaphors for the ways
in which we gather and experience knowledge -- the organic, non-linear
process in which thoughts have a genesis and then are adopted, refuted,
or discarded. Freeing viewers from literal reading, the reconfigured
texts
enable contemplation of the larger influences of a textural landscape.
Holly
A. Senn
Textural
Belltown Gallery, Center on Contemporary Art
Seattle, WA
July-August, 2007