In digital age, local artist’s display encourages traditional reading
Digital devices are claiming our constant attention, and, in this age of gadgets galore, technological burn-out is slowly but surely ensuing.
In his window display exhibit titled “WI-FI OUT OF ORDER,” local artist Driss Tijani has shaped figures inspired by and reminiscent of the life-sized plaster-cast sculptures created by George Segal, who often depicted average people in ordinary moments in time. Similarly, with these readers, Tijani is paying homage to a very simple but time-honored activity, which he fears will soon become extinct.