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WAITING
In collaboration with Light Art Collection
LOCATION: LSM Building, M St, between 33rd & 34th St NW
We can all recognize the rotating wheel that appears on our computer and phone screens when we must wait for something to download, buffer, update or restart. The waiting symbol, illustrated in this artwork that is aptly named Waiting, consists of lines in a circle that light up, one by one. This classic symbol oddly reassures us and seems to say, "Don't click away, don't close the window. Wait a minute and you will be rewarded. You may not see it but we're working hard behind the scenes."
Every day, we are bombarded with messages (including texts, images and sounds) and we don't make the effort to decipher them if we don't understand them immediately. Symbols are a great solution; in our hyper-visual world, they are simple and take less time to understand. And so, we have become accustomed to the fact that the spinning wheel will, at some point, after waiting for either a short or a somewhat longer amount of time, stop turning. But what happens when Foole's wheel stops turning? |