Posts tagged Books

Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me, I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Ilmārs Blumbergs, Books of Venice (2003), Drawing, paper, ink, charcoal, pencil [more info. about the books here]

Ilmārs Blumbergs, Books of Venice (2003), Drawing, paper, ink, charcoal, pencil

[more info. about the books here]

“A Picture breaks down a digital photo into its component parts, the source code. The entire body of information contained in the now indecipherable picture is bound into a book.” Ruben Aubrecht, In Other Words…? A Picture (2004), 253 pages

“A Picture breaks down a digital photo into its component parts, the source code. The entire body of information contained in the now indecipherable picture is bound into a book.”

Ruben Aubrecht, In Other Words…? A Picture (2004), 253 pages

F. Dostoyevsky: C. and P., pages 57/58 (Penguin Popular Classics) [+] Vittorio Santoro, Pencil on paper (partially burned), 2007

F. Dostoyevsky: C. and P., pages 57/58 (Penguin Popular Classics) [+]

Vittorio Santoro, Pencil on paper (partially burned), 2007

Even books, word-things that should be judged by their content, fascinate me as objects. I confess I have many books in my library that I have never read nor had the intention of reading. I want them because their sheer presence represents a yearning, a mood, a love, and yes, an act of self-preservation. When my eyes scan my library, the typefaces of the titles, the textures of the covers, and their imagined weight give me a moment very like the pleasure of reading.
The Urge To Make Things, Leo Lionni, 1991
Based on a diary entry by the Russian poet Daniil Kharms [more info. on a free .PDF here] o.T. (Today I wrote Nothing / Daniil Kharms), Natalie Czech (2009) [+]

Based on a diary entry by the Russian poet Daniil Kharms

[more info. on a free .PDF here]

o.T. (Today I wrote Nothing / Daniil Kharms), Natalie Czech (2009) [+]