The art plaza Written Words is a unique "room" within a larger exterior plaza adjacent to the library. Responding to the larger plaza's grid pattern and round grass mounds, the art project occupies a 32' x 32' area carved into a group of four of the grassy mounds. It consists of a series of arc-shaped granite benches radiating out from a centrally-placed abstract granite sculpture, a granite arc of text inlaid into the two-toned colored concrete sidewalk and granite retaining walls cladding the cut-out mounds. The artwork's skewed grid deliberately contrasts with that of the larger plaza, as a metaphor for the library which functions to help one ‘see’ in new ways.