For Artown 2019, the Lambins lovingly carved through Walter Clark’s The City of Trembling Leaves, a story that largely takes place in Reno. The figures that spring from the pages play music, paint, and dance to represent the arts in classic forms.
It seems limiting to call My Thousand Words sculptures. These paper figures wear words and sing stories. It’s as if a breeze carrying loose leaves and the sound of far-off instruments flung the book open itself, flipping through the pages before landing on this lively scene.
For the first time in years, this wasn’t a piece of art that naturally lived in a digital form. In order to properly capture the creative energy of this piece, we enlisted the help of one Reno’s own creative minds, Jeff Ross. Two and a half hours and a lot of lighting play later, we had a working image.