It's one of the most famous moments in literature- the battle between Don Quixote and the windmills. Eveneople who have never read Cervantes' still know that image.

It's a post-modern moment at the dawn of modernity. As the self-proclaimed knight errant, Quixote mistakes the symbols of the industrial revolution for mythic creatures of the medieval imagination. Throughout the novel, Quixote's encounters with technology lead to the fracture of unitary meaning and signification.

I've created a replica of an optical telegraph, a system of wireless telecommunication invented in the 19th Century in France. My version, however, is a drawing/(un)drawing machine that draws with charcoal in one arm and smears in the other.The original structures were built into towers and on hills and, to me, resemble insane windmills or giants gesticulating wildly. The optical telegraph designed to communicate over large distances with scientific precision, but without the semaphore code to decrypt the message, it communicated about as well as the windmills to Quixote.

Today, bits and bytes of data bombards us at a blistering baud rate with barely a moment in between. Sometimes this over-abundance of information overtakes itself turning into a continuous smear of feedback.

Quixotic (Un)meanings explores our attempts to extract and disseminate signification and meaning in a world full of noise and distortion.