Aesop's fox disparaged the grapes he was unable to reach, saying that they were sour. Sprouting from the ceiling in the business and economics reading room, this twisted and tortured wrought-iron vine, ripe with full green glass fruit, can be desired or dismissed as the potentially 'sour grapes' of economics. The sculptural installation can be reviewed as a sly comment on the early agricultural economy of the San José area, and the data-harvesting economy that has replaced i.
Location: ceiling of east corner of the Sixth Floor, near the sorting area