"It's like wandering about in a library where all the books are written in an indecipherable language"
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem, 1961
Open Book
installation (screen printed acetate sheet, printed silk, screen printed fabric, wax,
plaster, mortar, flint & plaster, mirror, slumped float glass, kiln-cast glass, paint)
dimensions variable 2011
In a small neighbourhood library a large multi-coloured banner (book case height) directs customers towards a series of 18 books which use languages other than English. Not foreign languages, but languages some of us recognise and can use, but which most of us just find bewildering.
The banner is made up of sheets of over-lapping acetates which have been screen printed with samples of these languages.
In this detail can be seen
knitting,
maths,
music,
semaphore,
circuit board,
braille,
statistics
This detail has
shorthand,
html,
semaphore,
circuit board,
statistics.
The books are distributed about the library.
On one central table lie the majority of the small books,(all approximately 13 x 17 x 3 cm).
Meanwhile the larger books (all approximately 21 x 31 x 3 cm) are situated in the window alongside the computers and daily papers.
Some individual examples:
Semaphore
slumped glass, wax, plastic
small book
Utopian
slumped glass, wax,
screen printed fabric
small book
Arabic
mirror, slumped glass
small book
Binary
kiln-cast glass
small book
Braille
cast flint and plaster
large book
English
kiln-cast glass, paint
small book
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