R. Luke DuBois "Hindsight Is Always 20/20" @ the bitforms Gallery

Using an algorithm, DuBois calculated various presidents' most said words in their State of the Union addresses.  Shown as an eye-chart, each print displays each president's most said word at the top, in large print, followed accordingly by the other words said, getting smaller and smaller toward the bottom of the print.  Each print gives a look into what was going on at the time of each president's term -- what words were said clues the viewer in to what was important, what issues were being spoken about.  While I was too young to have witnessed most of the State of the Union addresses looked at in the exhibit, I could tell, through what I have learned in my high school history classes, how the prints really exemplified each presidency.  

It is interesting to think about how to define or bundle up a person's "term," be it presidential or any other important period of one's life.  For instance, I would be interested in seeing what my most said words throughout high school were, or even more interestingly, what my mother, father, or stepfather's most said words in high school were.