This project is a way of seeing if a person might "know" a text the way they know a neighbor they have never spoken to or a bush at the end of the street.
Proximity, osmosis, ambience and time. The sort of knowing that happens from the corner of our eye. I chose Swann's Way because of its pace and its relationship to memory. It felt like the right foil for the urgency these signs usually carry: "we buy gold, check out our..., weather take shelter." The full text of the book is displayed as a text readout on a repurposed LED sign and takes 36 hours to complete, scrolling at a legible but slow pace. This is for the person who walks their dog by it every morning, for the group of teenagers that sneak out at night to the picnic table in the park across the street, as the leaves fall, as the snow covers.
The installation ran from October 2019 through into 2020 as a part of the terrain biennial.