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Commissioned by the City of San Buenaventura |
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The installation was inspired by looking at an integrated circuit on a computer chip through a microscope. The digital pathways and structures within a chip are the road maps for information and parallel a library's traditional function to order information for anyone's research and retrieval. Matrix's abstract color panel areas are composed of visual designs from all over the world and nearly fifty lines of text from poems, prose and personal statements. Many of the quotes were submitted by members of our community and investigate numerous roads to quest, search, and discovery. The abstract patterns incorporated into the panels are derived from textile and ceramic patterns and architectural motifs from around the world. Originally many ancient visual designs held meaning for the culture that developed and used them. Now, though their original meanings might have been lost, the digitizing of information by computers has created new visual patterns from seemingly abstract binary codes and paths which are read by computers as information. Reminiscent of stained glass, Matrix uses advanced technology that enables the digitally designed colored images to be laminated within the glass panels of the library's main entrance. The entry installation is 12 feet x 18 feet composed of twelve separate panels. ® Sally Weber 1999. Original website design: J. Penny |
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