Choose Wisely

2025

plum bob, typewriter, table, dust, 17" x 17" x height varies

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Using a typewriter, plum bob, and dust as metaphors, Choose Wisely represents the interplay between language, gravity, commitment, and the anxiety of potential consequence. 

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Whereas the typewriter represents language, the plum bob represents gravity - both the gravity of force and the gravity of commitment. The dust represents time and assists the plum bob in its unwavering focus. It suspends its full weight within the typewriter but does not touch it. The tiny synapse between the two elements – between language and commitment signifies the anticipatory of a yet known consequence. Choose Wisely creates a meditative, though paradoxical anxiety. There is no AI, no spellcheck, no command Z here. Once the word has been chosen - once expression has been put out into the world there is no taking it back. ​​