Restoring the Babble

Currently here at Collette Collins Design we are working on restoring one of Ann Hamilton’s contributions to the Seattle Public Library, The Floor of Babble.  Ann Hamilton is a renowned visual artist, famous for the way she invokes text and sound, incorporating time both as material and process in order to call forth the collective voices of the past and stories that perhaps otherwise would be lost.  Read more about Ann Hamilton on her site here http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/.  Another project she did for the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library at Ohio State, called “Verse,”  tells the story adapted from a White River Sioux myth, among other creation stories, and works as a kind of concordance for the reader, or walker, from different perspectives.  Read a lovely review of “Verse” here http://art.osu.edu/news/reception-400pm-600pm

Because of the depth of meaning and importance of Hamilton’s work, it is a compliment to be asked to restore the Babble Floor at Seattle’s Central Library.  A few pictures of our progress on the floor:

Blue tape marking the area of restoration

Before:

As the restoration begins it’s looking more fresh:

Close-Up:

 

 

 

 

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