Although viewers are free to make any associations they choose, “Forbidden” is an installation that gnaws at the notion that destroying books, specifically library books, is forbidden. And yet, while books, in concept, may generate ideas, I’m exploring the question, “What would those ideas really look like?” And in order to show the three-dimensional “fruit” of knowledge and reading, I must destroy books. (No circulating library books were harmed in creating this piece.)

Date: May 9 – July 30, 2005

Location: Tacoma Contemporary, F.W. Woolworth Building, Tacoma, Washington