MATRIX

Entry for the E.P. Foster Library, Ventura, CA. Solar illuminated, 12' x 18' digital glass.

Matrix reflects the visual paths of knowledge as the evolution of encoded information from abstract patterns and symbols to written language and now to digital code. The installation was inspired the digital pathways within a microcircuit. These digital roadmaps 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 binary codes.