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Jenny Holzer is known for her art relating to truisms. Her work has revolved around truisms and finding an artistic way to display them. Kind of Blue is another work comprising different aphorisms and truisms. It combines digital technology, reflections, and a very blue theme. Text-based art is Holzer’s specialty, and she works with it along with LED, Parking meters, and billboards .
Kind of Blue is an installation with long lanes of blue-lighted text running through the galleries of the museum. The lanes run through the central gallery till they reach the glass door overlooking the pond. The artist says that this installation represents how her career has evolved over the years and how distinguished her work has become. The text runs like a river through the clerestory gallery, creating a surreal image as it reaches that glass door and the writing reflects over the water. Some of these texts include GUNS MAKE WRONG RIGHT FAST and FEAR IS THE MOST ELEGANT WEAPON.






