Jeffrey Sarmiento (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Encyclopædia, 2007
Enameled and cast glass
6.5”h x 39”w x 6”d

Sarmiento continues his layering and stacking process in the series Encyclopædia. The largest is a massive 40 inches long by five and six inch-thick arch, consisting of more than 200 carefully chosen “pages” of information. They range from a series of bird etchings that look like they date back to the earliest European explorations of the New World, to a chart of natural tangents from trigonometry, to figurative etchings of the Renaissance period, to a tuning fork and the sound waves it creates. The cultures of the Old World can further be seen in a Grecian urn with warriors adorning battle armaments, and sections of text written in German, Danish, and Old English. Finally, to top things off, all the hues from the blossoms in a botanical garden can be seen in this one piece alone. Such a crosscurrent of images, texts, and colors quickly become an overwhelming task to the wearying eye.

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