The Passage de la Tour sculpture is very enigmatic. By structure its a dead end but it is full of mind broadening books. The only way I could drill into it was through investigation of artist's motive. After a little history gathering on the project, his evolving annual sculpture quest, I tried to arrive at how the artist highlighted the books to make the people notice, before they are recycled.
Silo
At a second hand book fair at
the church
Books lie around
like bricks unclaimed
Unbranded
Year 0
The arch is wide
Another pillar to balance the
space
Stacked books in a column
become the Atlas
Once two humans form a base
with
their hands, others begin to
form
The human pyramid
We always want to hoist
something
Lift the world
The world of books
Year 1
The arch is wide
The space murmurs like a hive
of
Paper wasps
Like a wooden box full of
Pigeonholes at a corner store
The hive is thin
Before the hive gives out
Before the books go to the
pound
Before the words are
pulverised
The words are in the
dictionary but a particular long sequence is in that book. Save it as is. Or
revise it with your life. Preserve the book. Pickle it. Increase its Shelf Life.
Note: Some wasps build their
nests out of mud but ‘paper wasps’ use wood to make hives with papery material.
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