Word Play
2013
MDO plywood, wood, aluminum, stainless steel, acrylic sheet, latex paint, spar urethane, books
58” x 19” x 23”
New York, NY

Word Play was part of Little Free Library/NYC, a project of The Architectural League of New York and Pen World Voices Festival, in collaboration with Little Free Library, Ltd. For this project, I worked closely with the community organization Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and students from its after school program to develop a site-specific book shelter and bench that attaches to a fence outside a housing development in New York’s Lower East Side. Capturing the multi-cultural character of the neighborhood in which it was installed, the piece incorporates a visual effect that shows the word “library” in English, Spanish, and Chinese all at once.