James Sanborn

“It wasn't a puzzle that could be solved in a day or a week.”

“The fourth part is the one that's the most difficult, and it's the one that I thought would be solved last.”

“I used codes that were actually used historically, and I developed some of my own.”

“I wanted to make a piece that was a real-time piece, a piece that you could go out and look at and decipher.”

“In the beginning, I decided that I would not give any clues.”

“The whole project for me was an experiment in telling secrets.”

“I'm fascinated by the idea of information that is hidden from view.”

“There are secrets, and there are secrets. And some of them are worth keeping.”

“My work deals with the unseen, the unheard, the unremembered.”

“Secrecy can be a good thing, and it can be a bad thing.”

“Art can make you look at the world differently.”

“There's an aesthetic to information, a beauty in the way it's structured.”