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Notes No.1

2015

MDF, paint

39'-0"w x 19'-0"h x 4"d

Inspired by the tactile history of printing blocks, this 34-foot-long, 19-foot-high installation explores language as an evolving, malleable system of signs. Letters, numbers, and symbols—CNC-cut from MDF boards of varying thicknesses—are layered and stained to echo the worn richness of vintage type blocks. Arranged in a seemingly random composition, they invite viewers to engage in the ultimate game of bricolage: disassembling and reassembling symbols to forge personal meanings. Recessed LED strip lights streak horizontally across the surface like time-lapse photography, introducing a temporal dimension. Light becomes a metaphor for shifting context, suggesting how the shared meanings of words and symbols are always in motion. Installed in the lobby of an apartment building on the border of UCLA and the Hammer Museum, the work addresses a multigenerational audience. It offers a meditation on how interpretation—shaped by memory, time, and cultural change—is never fixed, but endlessly reconfigurable.

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