Installation with Interior view
In these works the original text has been removed and preserved under Plexiglas. Each book then becomes a container and the remaining text becomes context for a visual daydream. The interior is viewed through a judas in the spine of the book.
Talking about my work, Ex Libris: La Divina Comedia at the Contemporary Venice show in the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy July 15-Aug. 5, 2022
EX LIBRIS: AN INTIMATE IMMENSITY
A series of small, intimate installations inside old books.
an “intimate immensity” is a phrase Gaston Bachélard used, in “The Poetics of Space”, to convey a certain quality to daydreaming that
“…transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity…In analysing images of immensity, we should realise within ourselves the pure being of pure imagination.”…. “Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts again when we are alone. As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere; we are dreaming in a world that is immense.”
It is this sense of expansion, of enlarged space, of being elsewhere that these intimate works from Ex Libris attempt to evoke when we take a moment to remain motionless and peer into a world of pure imagination.
To view each work click on an image below.