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15. A SLOW FORMATION OF LETTERS 1998.
Typewriter, Broad Bean seeds, perspex, paper, nylon threads, soil
50 x 25 x variable

A manual typewriter has been cut in half and reassembled using taut nylon threads. Between the two halves a number of Broad Bean seeds are planted and as they grow, the leaves of the seedlings catch upon the threads, and cause the mechanical typing hammers (linked by the threads) to slowly move towards the paper. Over a period of four weeks, the beans cause a series of random letters to converge towards the paper, typing a single letter. The first key it depressed was '+/-' .