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The River Writes Itself
25.5” x 12” x 4.5”
On display and available for purchase at Maine Art Collective, 9 Moulton St., Portland, ME
A meditation on time, technology, and terrain, The River Writes Itself fuses the anatomy of a typewriter with the natural motion of a river. This assemblage turns machinery into metaphor, where memory flows not as text, but as water carving through the land.
25.5” x 12” x 4.5”
On display and available for purchase at Maine Art Collective, 9 Moulton St., Portland, ME
A meditation on time, technology, and terrain, The River Writes Itself fuses the anatomy of a typewriter with the natural motion of a river. This assemblage turns machinery into metaphor, where memory flows not as text, but as water carving through the land.
Materials List
Typewriter components (typebars, platen, carriage)
Steel and brass gears
River landscape photo (distressed paper)
Ruler and hardware bolts
Collaged ephemera with text and patent imagery
Painted and textured panel
Wood box construction
In The River Writes Itself, the mechanical becomes poetic. A deconstructed typewriter forms the frame for a flowing river image, which runs vertically like a roll of paper or a ribbon of thought. Typebars arc overhead like the crown of a tree—or the edge of a memory—and below, gears and rollers suggest a machine mid-sentence. The piece blurs boundaries between written word and natural current, evoking both time and transformation.