And then there is the scrollbar, which has recurred in many contexts and forms in Leegte’s practice since 1997 – in both the virtual and physical realms; as a website and as a sculpture. The scrollbar is a transformative everyday object, like the separate words in Barthes’s analysis, that constantly takes on new meanings – and appearances – in different constellations. A cultural construction with no identifiable author. Words also exist outside the literary realm, just as the scrollbar – and the pixels or ones and zeros of which it is composed – functions outside the field of art. The unveiling of materiality and the stripping of meaning, in turn, seem to be reserved for the realms of literature and art.