Bicycle wheel, clothes pins, laminated cards. This piece fuses the fond childhood memory of exploring my hometown on a bicycle with my adult experience of a cross-country bicycle trip. As a boy, my friends and I would use a clothes pin to affix a baseball card to the bicycle frame such that a slap-slap-slap would be created with each momentary contact of the passing spokes in the spinning wheel--one of the signature sounds of summer. As an adult, I kept a journal of a two-wheeled trip from Utah to New Jersey that spanned five weeks and more than 2,000 miles. The handwritten text from that journal is superimposed on the cards, which contain maps of the cities and geography I passed through, and the cards are attached to an old bicycle wheel. This piece was included in the Santa Clara Biennial Indoor Sculpture Exhibition and catalog in the fall of 2011. Dimensions: 28" x 28" x 8" (metal stand available). (See also "Spoke 'n' Words (detail)" elsewhere.)