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 Penny delivers her obsessions with cycles of growth, with permanence and transitory moments in various large forms: tornados, strung images of telephone poles, stomachs, and organ-like lumps. The Clerical Vortex or shredded paper tornado observes the epic use of documents in paper form, their temporary significance, their existence as a destructive mass of trash. Further in the reinterpreted office machinery and reused library cards, she comments on the transitory nature of technology, the farcical nature of technological progress, the by-products of systems change. Transformation and change dominate Penny Young’s work in various forms. Moody, melancholy and well observed, the subjects in her writing encompass the landscape of abandonment, resurrection and the inner conflicts of the human experience. Not without hope, her characters inhabit the fear of knowing as well as the known. Struggling with addictions, habits, the hardened hearted people in Penny’s stories find occasional solace in the incidental. Light penetrating the darker parts of what is human is the continuous theme of her work. Twilight is her favorite time of day, the darkness not fully overtaking the day, but pressing it downward. Sleep is a metaphor for peace, is peace in her world, and often in her life that was the only place of true respite. Chance and order through chaos are oft-repeated themes in her art and writing. Pressing the buttons on the motorized Rolodexes bring the viewer to a random stopping point, with continued pressing of the button, a combination of phrases create differing impressions, unique and variable. Not unlike the magic 8-Ball or an I-Ching, yet answering no direct questions.
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