The Wind in the Willows

Coit, seated in the gallery, reads from Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" in unusual locations around Santa Fe. Viewers could watch Coit through the vitrine and hear her reading through an external speaker.

“By performing reading as a deliberate act for children and adults alike, Coit is able to remind us of the bonds that sprout up between a reader and her public, between speaker and listener. She also shows us that reading and reading to, not to mention being read to, are not the same experience for any parties involved. Giving the audience a three-quarter view of her back grants the experience a kind of privacy while also allowing the listener to not only tune in to the words but also to peer in, as an act of voyeurism, to a makeshift mobile vitrine.” - Jennie Hirsh, from “Before and After Language: The Art of Madelin Coit”