Books of Things We Do Not Know

Mike’s exploration of themes related to media and knowledge began by carving and constructing books whose contents were inaccessible. Like the concentric rings of trees, these books carry markers of extensive life without revealing more than the surface meaning of those lives. What does ignorance of a tree’s knowledge sponsor? Curiosity, wonder, respect? Or some of each? These books ultimately became for Mike a tribute to all that we do not know and all there is yet to learn.