“Every choice I made was dependent on a choice Bruno Schulz had made. On top of which, so many of Schulz’s sentences feel elemental, unbreakdownable. And his writing is so unbelievably good, so much better than anything that could conceivably be done with it, that more often than not I simply wanted to leave it alone.” [an interview: part 1 and part 2; more info. here]

Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles)

“Over the course of the exhibition, attendants mark Museum visitors’ heights, first names, and date of the measurement on the gallery walls. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.” [more —more info. here]

Roman Ondák, Measuring the Universe, 2007

“In particular I focused on the holes in the text and the markings that Jefferson made as he went through his editing process. The photographs weave emptiness and words to form emotions both about the act of editing scripture and original text.” [read her statement; more info. here — introduction]

Thomas Jefferson and the Good Book (1804); Photos by Alexandria Searls