Tuesday, March 24, 2009

talking bookcases


Bookcase project:


So I have been thinking about what a bookcase represents. What does it hold? How is the information categorized, displayed, lost, or buried. I wonder how much of my bookcase is about a representation of who I am, or just what I currently have shuffling around my life. I've even been guilty of putting my most respectable books in prominent places to show others, or remind myself of an aptitude for learning, or knowledge I've processed. Could a bookcase be a trophy case for knowledge aquired?


I'm proposing the idea of an exchange of information between bookcases. It could be in a physical sense, or ideas. Can the physical presence of three bookcases invade one another? Would we actually build connections between them? or simply sabatage the logic of the others? Perhaps we can each build, alter, arrange our individual shelves and then see what happens when they collide.

NH


3 comments:

  1. Nathan! I want to start working on this! Are you going to be around this weekend? -ckd

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  2. ps. i do the same thing- putting the most impressive books in prominent positions. i like how you put it, " a trophy case for knowledge aquired." that's perfect.

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  3. pps. your bookcase is so photogenic!

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