Sierra Suite

We've all been here--sitting through a training session for yet another new software that isn't much different from the one it's replacing. Sierra Suite is a collection of poems 'overheard' at one of these sessions. They consist of phrases taken straight from the trainer's mouth, but in their new context it's clear that the words are about authority and control, about who can do what in the digital environment. "Do you have any concerns? // No. // Remember: // Everything you want to do...
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We've all been here--sitting through a training session for yet another new software that isn't much different from the one it's replacing. Sierra Suite is a collection of poems 'overheard' at one of these sessions. They consist of phrases taken straight from the trainer's mouth, but in their new context it's clear that the words are about authority and control, about who can do what in the digital environment. "Do you have any concerns? // No. // Remember: // Everything you want to do / someone must give you rights to do."This print-on-demand edition is the second installment of an artist's book project by Josh Hockensmith, a book artist, poet, and library worker in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The project includes very different publications of the same poems, exploring how each edition's physical form changes how we read them.