Working from an intricate network of memory, both personal and collective, Carol explores their unexpected influences: how we perceive the world and how we interact with others. Carol Young’s installations evoke these subliminal memories through dialogue with the emptiness and freshness of a blank page. Drawing on an image that may refer to an ancient library composed of paper and parchment, her work conjures up the sign-filled archive of the many individual moments of experience -- unknown and hidden information that yearns to be classified reviewed and studied.



The " rolls" that Young composes in semidarkness contain no writing, only small creases and folds, somewhat like gestural “protowriting,” putting into action a subtle language of touch; a nuanced field that contains evidence of our presence in this world. The tactile experience contains complex relationships between the body, others, and the world. 




Installation of 15 individual scrolls.