EX LIBRIS BOOKWORKS: AN INTIMATE IMMENSITY
A series of small, intimate installations inside old books.
“intimate immensity” is the phrase Gaston Bachélard used, in his magical book “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." He goes on to say, “In analysing images of immensity, we should realize 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 and enlarged space 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.
Work is presented here in chronological order beginning with the most recent to the earliest. Click on an image for a larger view and information on materials and dimensions. Return to EX LIBRIS BOOKWORKS to view each work in greater detail.
