digital natives in the binary business

I was blown away today by the Victor Skipp exhibition at Kettles Yard. Each piece is a word, which makes the exhibition a book. It’s the way the words are arranged that gives it the richness.Visitors have the freedom to read sentences as they wish, read the words in whatever order they wish, in effect creating their own metaphors or imagery.

I particularly like the implied domestic hearth and chimney with bronze figures on either side like fire irons or Glaswegian ‘Wally Dugs’, a drawn ladder apparently disappearing up the inside of the chimney, and leading to a celestial image of stars on a slate:” one hundred holes within one whole, each in its own whole of yet another whole”.

Indeed, text throughout the exhibition is pregnant with potential. These resonated with me particularly:

The Year of Mythical Thinking

The Lost Inheritance

The Binary Business

…space consists of things we do not see, or only half see, in a blurred entirely out of focus way.

I would like to think that as a digital native, I too am in the binary business.

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