Verbal Description: Introduction 

Narrator: As you exit from the stairwell or elevators and enter the third floor, you will be met by a mural that stretches along the entire gallery. This mural is titled Prolonged Echo, and has a white background with large sloping arcs in black, making reference to the sign for echo in American Sign Language, which is made by tapping the fingers of one hand to the palm of the other, which is held perpendicularly. The tapping hand then moves away from the other hand in a smooth motion, much like the curve of some of the arcs depicted here. These hand painted arcs are not entirely black, there are some spots of white peeking through. There are eight stark black and white charcoal on paper drawings of various sizes spaced throughout the gallery and hung on top of the mural.

Two of these drawings are also made up of sloping large black arcs on a white background, similar to the mural. These drawings are both called Large Echo. They are both rectangular, and are about 45 inches high and 88 inches wide. The black arcs on each page are much taller than they are wide, and mostly take up nearly the entire length of the paper. They range in height, and some slope towards the right. In the valleys between each arc, the artist has written “OWE” O-W-E in white capitalized letters. There are also two drawings entitled Small Echo. These works are also white paper with black charcoal arcs, but unlike in Large Echo, the paper is square, measuring just over 16 inches on each side. The arcs in these works are a much squatter shape. On the white paper at the intersection of each arc, the artist has written “HAND PALM” in black capitalized letters, alluding to the movements used to make the sign for echo.

There are three more works on the walls of this gallery, all of which are titled Pointing. In each of these works, arcs seem to emerge from the sides of the paper and extend beyond the edges. Each work has three arcs of varying sizes, and a small space is left at the edge of the paper between each arc. At the center of the paper, an organic shape made from the negative space emerges. In the spaces at the edges of the paper, the artist has written “POINT”.