Splinting the building of Reserve Ames with four
stainless steel poles, Jacob Kassay’s installation
DFHJ extends laterally across and through the walls,
piercing each axis of the space. Lined with Braille
characters repeated without syntax, these supports
are embossed with uniform cells of raised pins, each
signifying a separate letter - D, F, H, J - according to
the pattern’s rotation. Aligned to the cardinal
directions of the space - N, E, S, W - the four
interlocking poles form a stockade out of the pivoted
characters, inverting the code’s guiding and ancillary
functions. This closed loop of palindromic letters
traces a perimeter of droning tones, inaudible but
immanent as tactile abstractions:
dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddffffffffffffffffffffffff
fffffhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
jjjjjjjjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffffffffddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
