Using discarded library books as my primary material, I create sculptures and installations in which I explore the life cycle of ideas--the organic, non-linear process in which thoughts have a genesis and then are disseminated, adopted or refuted, forgotten or referenced. My art investigations are inextricably intertwined with my part-time "day job" as a virtual reference librarian at an academic library where, while surrounded by books, I interact with patrons who prefer digital resources. As I cut, rip, soak, align, realign and glue, I reflect on each new generations’ collective erasure of some element of the past and its casting of new ideas into the future. My work is as ephemeral and fleeting as ideas committed to paper.
-Holly A. Senn