The only constant is change. (2001-2002),
ink on paper, sound sculpture (altered paper sounds)

This installation can only be fully experienced if you take the time to enter the environment, touch the paper, read the text, and hear the sounds. Over a hundred hand-torn strips of paper hang from above. Many carry hand-written common phrases like Everything is different now. and Nothing stays the same., while the clusters in the center offer my own phrases, written over the months following September 11, such as It was not enough to continue on as we had.

We gathered out planned paths and erased their traces

All was new now but everything felt old

Below each of these clusters lay small mounds of ripped clichés. In the long threaded stack that hugs the wall, this same interplay of voices is at work, with the gentle but insistently optimistic phrases repeated:

I am waiting

while I wait I am searching

ready

ready for what will come

Participants move, touch, and read, surrounded by the muffled ambient recording of the sounds of the paper as I worked with it - tearing, writing, gathering, - slowed down beyond recognition.