Written by Bill Westheimer

Written represents the challenge of writing a book by enclosing a sharpened pencil inside the book sculpture which is also pierced by five additional pencils. Now that most authors write using a computer instead of pencil and paper the anachronism of pencils are piercing the sculpture of the book vessel. There is no written content, no pages, just the writing implements which represent the creativity and imagination that infuse a book with excitement and pleasure, or in the case of an author with writer's block, agony.