This project is intended to suggest the spectral trace of the card files from the old central library. The card files are an article of furniture that has been rendered nearly obsolete by computerized cataloging. However, some of the information recorded on these cards has never been entered into the on-line catalog, either because there was no category for them in the database or the notations were too idiosyncratic. Thus, much of this information would have been lost without the original cards. As a result, squirreled away in several parts of the new Central Library, are the beloved card files. Of Memory was commissioned by the City of Seattle, Office of Arts and Culural Affairs, for the Seattle Central Library.

44"h x 170"w x 6"d
Cast polyester resin/fiberglass

Photo credit: Spike Mafford