2018 · Vinyl wall installation with audio · Los Angeles International Airport (LAWA)
spoken blues is a collage of found book spines, each chosen for a title that refers to the color blue. The titles stand as vertical fragments, forming a poetic sequence modeled on the tanzaku, the narrow paper strip on which a single line records a moment.
The work is a haikussemblage, gathering fragments of language into a condensed field of reading where meaning forms through adjacency, rhythm, and interruption.
Installed in a public transit corridor, the piece unfolds through movement. As travelers pass, the text slides between legibility and abstraction and is read over time, in passing.
An accompanying audio component carries the composition into sound through recorded spoken excerpts.
spoken blues
2018
Vinyl wall installation with audio
Los Angeles International Airport (LAWA)