Denise McMorrow

PATH

2008
Discarded/Unwanted Books

Path is a site-specific, 250 foot-long outdoor installation at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts that deals with the relationship between books that are somehow considered obsolete or unwanted and our own mortality as human beings. Evolving organically across the natural terrain of PCA, Path is an invitation to those who follow it to meditate on the narratives and knowledge contained within these books, the poetics of physical decay and our own fundamentally ecological aspect, and the threads of writing and burial that connect us all. All of the books used for this piece were "weeded" items from the collections of local libraries that had set them aside to be discarded or recycled.