The properties of books

Enclosed content chatting away in the colour invisibility
by Anouk Kruithof

What a week of event, observation, criticism and analysis that was!

And rain, and grey, and cold.

And people.

This video reminds me oddly of conversations I had last night about the rediscovery of the site of the Curtain Theatre – and the picture in my previous post, with the lovely cobbles. In installation art, as in photography, as in poetry, the biggest abstraction – extrapolation – happens through the possibilities that exist only in particularities. These books speak to us; they speak to each other and they speak to the floor. Look how they elbow themselves back up.

Here is colour and construction and a coming back together, the cyclical adventure and perennial happy ending. Re-calibration is an environment, not an activity.

Click the link and look at the photographs: the books speak even through the soles of their feet.

I hope we all have a lovely weekend.