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Nomade

Alphabet dreams itself into human form

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Language made flesh: a figure assembled from the building blocks of meaning— a body of letters, paradoxically silent.

It stands as if speech were possible and chooses otherwise, composed entirely of what could be said, speaking only through the infinite combinations of meaning itself.

Jaume Plensa's Nomade sculpture in contemplative pose
Nomade, by artist Jaume Plensa at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, downtown Des Moines, Iowa