spoken blues

spoken blues

spoken blues

A collage composed from found book spines, each selected for its reference to the color blue. Titles are arranged as vertical fragments, forming a poetic sequence that draws from the structure of tanzaku, where a single line records a moment.

The work operates as a haikussemblage, bringing together fragments of language into a condensed field of reading where meaning forms through adjacency, rhythm, and interruption.

Installed within a public transit corridor, the piece unfolds through movement. As viewers pass, the text shifts between legibility and abstraction, becoming a field of language that is read in time rather than at once.

An accompanying audio component extends the work through recorded spoken excerpts, allowing the visual composition to continue as sound.

spoken blues
2018
Los Angeles International Airport (LAWA)
Vinyl wall installation with audio