Holly A. Senn "Windows on Nature and Knowledge"
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
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Using discarded library books as my primary material, I create sculptures and installations that explore the life cycle of ideas-the organic, non-linear process in which thoughts originate and are then adopted or refuted, forgotten or referenced. My art investigations are inextricably intertwined with my work 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, realign and glue my work, I reflect on each new generation's 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.
In this installation, sculptures made from discarded library book pages are combined with scenes from Brooklyn Botanic Garden, evoking life cycles and blurring the line between the intellectual and natural world. Brooklyn Botanic Garden provided photographs from which I created the diorama backgrounds and found inspiration for the sculptures.
[Image: Holly A. Senn "Assertion / Nelumbo nucifera (Lotus)"]
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from June 16, 2009 to September 11, 2009