"Vanishing Point" is a meditation on industrial automation most prevalent in the first half of the 20th century. The installation combines wagons and carts used by factory workers in Lewiston’s industrial textile mills, and piano rolls used to operate player pianos, a popular liesure activity of the same period.
Simply put, industrial looms and player pianos were operated by information stored on perforated paper or cards. The frequency and location of the punched holes embedded data that was transmitted to the complex machines.
—"The Piano Roll Project" exhibition catalogue, Heisen, Paula, Kristin Malin, and Gail Skudera, 2017
