Wordrattle=Taalratel – interactive sculpture for Dordtselaan – 2006
The Wordrattle consists of a matrix of 7 x 7 words. It is like a gambling machine. When someone presses the button, headed by the text: they are your words, the matrix will randomly pick another order of the words. A new meaning has to be given. The Wordrattle is the result of my wish to remind my fellow citizens in a playfull and yet enigmatic way of the responsibility we have towards what we say, what we think, what we accept as real, either in word or action, and what should be the silence, as rest.
View original concept in Dutch as PDF
The matrix should be read vertical. Here follows the free translation : horizontal.
THE ONE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER
OTHERWISE THE OTHER WOULD BE THE ONE
BUT ONE AND ZERO IS ALREADY MORE
THEREFORE BETWEEN NOTHING AND EVERYTHING A LOT
WHY SHOULD WE NOT SEE THAT THEN
COMPARE THE DIFFERENCE AND ENJOY THE LOT
LOSE COUNT AND ENJOY THE SHARING
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