"Off the Roll"

i really like these scotch tape sculptures

that are sitting around the main building at my school

by installation artist Mark Jenkins, 

who i know nothing about,

and i'm not sure how he's related to my school (if at all). 

i wonder if scotch tape is a metaphor for something? 

perhaps that people have become mummified to a certain degree by an almost invisible web

of "new" technology (scotch tape was new technology once, too), increasing our ability to escape death with an inverse decrease in clarity about life/self/etc.? 

i blame these existential, pointless musings on grad school, 

in case you were wondering.

yay for cool art though!