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 Mixed
media installation: hand-printed books, ceiling and wall
scrolls from intentionally false letter blocks.
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Book from The Sky took the artist over
three years to complete. The installation is comprised of
printed volumes and scrolls containing four thousand characters
individually "invented", designed and cut into
wood-blocks by the artist. The result is a set of four hand-printed
books, ceiling and wall scrolls that carry a huge body of
text that resembles Chinese characters but is in fact unintelligible.
The materials used for this production follow the tradition
of classical Chinese printing, scroll-design and book-binding.
This installation parodies ancient Chinese texts in the
context of the modern world and questions entrenched practices
such as written communication and the reading of human cultures.
The
work is installed by laying a number of the hand-printed
books open on the ground. The ceiling scrolls are hung from
the ceiling to bellow the height of an average person above
the books. Wall scrolls are hung on the surrounding walls
and sometimes artifacts from the works production are displayed
at the front of the installation space.
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