Understanding A Whale Fall/Whale Watch

"Understanding A Whale Fall/Whale Watch" is a store wide exhibition by Carrie Hott at Adobe Books that represents a process of inquiry, primarliy into whales, with occasional tangents taken to related topics and site specific investigations. Through the representation of research and its methods, Hott makes visible the action searching and being guided by curiousity in order to orient and understand. In the back room, "Understanding A Whale Fall" represents an interior space that is the site for a personal ongoing investigation into whales and their history. "Whale Watch," in the windows of the Adobe Books Parlor, is a two-part installation and participatory project that broadens the scope of the backroom investigation and brings an additional focus onto the surrounding city and its history. The storewide exhibition nods to the communal atmosphere of Adobe Books, which draws inquisitition and reflection in various forms, by visualizing the process of searching and inviting visitor contributions in the form of log recordings throughout the store.