'Word/Wort' uses found books that I collected in Germany, and in this work I aim to penetrate the barriers of communication and knowledge. I took the books and opened them up on random pages, then with a nail attached them to the wooden canvas so to symbolize the killing of literature and language. I then used an identical technique from my earlier piece, 'Haus Grosse Haus', where I smeared paint over the texts in order to delete them. This represented my relationship with the German language and the complexities I had with communicating. The viewer could not read the texts and therefore not understand what it was that they were saying, mirroring my experience.
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