Zack Bent’s Answers To The Universe

Another recent find while (body)surfing the ‘net is Seattle visual artist Zack Bent. His work most commonly marries objects with people or dynamic space; he once went so far as to spend a week living with his wife and two children within a frontier installation.

With Answers To The Universe, Bent’s 2007 series, he photographed stacks of vintage library books and left one tome with a given message. The inscriptions are unexpected, or maybe just introspective, but poignant all the same. Talk amongst yourselves, but the selections pictured above are my favorites.