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