Joe Brittain
T-I-L-L

This work is made with wood beams and expands upon the L&L series. Here, the wood forms the Letters T-I-L-L, which are combined in a unique structural way, the work then has two hand blown glass globes filled with black sand and black diamonds. It’s a “concrete poem” being made of ink and wood, the source of paper and it’s form being made of letters. It’s a poem in both three and four dimensions. It also references a deconstructed hourglass. Its timeline is ambiguous and invites us to think about our own time scales and what we might see when we say the word “till.”

While ‘till’ is a contraction of until, it has been in use for 1000 years to mean the same thing. It is a “slang that never got old.” It also means to work the land, as is to till soil. Brittain loves this double meaning.