KATE DODD - FREE VERSE

This art installation by Kate Dodd looks to promote reading “as a mind expanding activity” by employing the use of illustrated children’s books that have been repurposed into vibrant collections of pictures and words that rise up toward the library’s skylight. Ultimately, the work is intended by the artist to be a “metaphor for what early exposure to books can do for developing minds.”

Dodd implemented some of Redwood City’s favorite children’s literature in it, as identified through records and children’s librarians. Some of the books that make a showing in the library’s new art installation include: A Bad Case of Stripes, David Shannon; Dreamers, Yuyi Morales; Freight Train, Donald Crews; Go, Dog. Go!, P. D. Eastman; Hooray for Birds!, Lucy Cousins; The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats; The Ugly Vegetables, Grace Lin; and Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak.

Obelisk fabricated the complete eight suspended panels.