Tim Tate
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One the Threshold of Liberty, 2008
Page 100, 2008
Burned but Not Forgotten, 2008

Blown and cast glass, electric components, and original video
Courtesy of the artist

Tim Tate’s series of works include uniquely crafted glass reliquaries that campaign against the demise of the book in the digital age. One work, Memories of Reading (2008), speaks directly to the joy of reading by showing images of book pages appearing and disappearing in and out of focus.  Tate evokes sentimentality to reaffirm the importance of an object that some would claim is already obsolete. Within the glass encasements, preserved, dynamic testimonies spin tender stories of love. Tate explicitly represents the New Materiality continuum, with craft tradition at one end, digital technology at the other, and romantic narratives within a series of five evocative sculptural forms that lie somewhere in the middle.