Deborah Stratman
2005, video, 40 seconds.
Inspired by a chapter in Francois Rabelais’ 1653 epic novel “Gargantua & Pantagruel”* wherein Pantagruel finds that the explosions, cries and other sounds generated from a battle that had occurred the year before have been frozen into discernable shapes – and that the sounds can be released upon the breaking or melting of the frozen forms.



![[ fullscreen ] How Among the Frozen Words, still](http://adweb.aa.uic.edu/media/images/medium/dstrat1_0_0_p414_i1568_320.jpg)