Sunday 27 November 2016

The Disembodied Book - Marie Wintzer, Japan

I'm clearing - again. As Marie knows, this process is continuous, like breathing, except breathing achieves some success.  I found this treasure from back in the day.  It was accompanied by this note:
"no particular concept behind it, but I wanted to make a "disembodied book", with chapters independent from each other but still part of the same book, hence the loose binding.  The text is a kind of mockery of the praite one finds about certain books.  They are all cut from The Well of Lost Plots".  This was a novel I chatted to Marie about - a weird one, but the concept of characters existing as unformed shadows until written into use was an interesting one.
Unique book, various folds of Japanese calligraphy paper, thread, loose chapters, cloth.