Ex Libris: Millenium: El Aleph
Ex Libris: Millenium: El Aleph
"The Aleph?" I echoed.
"Yes, the place where all the places of the world meet without mingling, beheld from every possible angle at once…." I tried to make sense of it.
"But isn't the cellar very dark?"
"Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. If all the places of the earth are in the Aleph, then all sources of illumination, all lamps, all veins of light are there."
"I shall go and look at once."
(J.L. Borges, El Aleph, quoted in Millennium)
Materials: book (Millennium, Filipe Fernandez-Arnesto, 1996), mirrors, frosted glass, judas, found objects, photos, plywood, stain, brass hardware, lamp.
Book Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 6cm / 9.5 x 6 x 2in
Full Dimensions: 120 x 75 x 30cm / 48 x 30 x 12in
2006
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.