Artist: Claire Satin
Title: "Alphastory"
Medium: Integrated Art -Installation w/Multiple Components
Size: 11' x 17' mural
Year Installed: 1998
Venue: Pembroke Pines/Walter C. Young Resource Center
Claire Jeanine Satin, the internationally-exhibited Broward County book artist and sculptor, designed the multi-faceted Alphastory for the Pembroke Pines Branch Library, Walter C. Young Middle School Resource Center.
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Alice in Wonderland' tile wall design includes a quotation from "The Annotated Alice," the history of letters and numbers, and a Braille translation of the quotation.
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Suspended Band' above the library information desk includes a quotation from William Blake: "Reader, Lover of Books, Lover of Heaven"
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The Yellow Brick Road' 165 ft. processional walkway between the library and middle school; embedded water jet cut pavers depicting a series of Roman alphabets, interspersed with historical alphabet images in sandblasted filler pavers
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Hieroglyphic Walkway' from the parking lot into the library lobby, 100-ft. tile pavers design based on hieroglyphic and alphabet images
"The idea is based on the history and development of the written language/alphabet, presented in a direct and visually evolutionary manner. It is meant to be appealing and instructional to both adults and children. The choice of the content recognizes the alphabet/writing as the fundamental building blocks of a Library for reading, learning, research, communication; man's most profound invention."
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