“Let’s just say we wanted to put a lot of objects before the public and have them look for the bookness in them.” said Ed Hutchins, co-curator with Carolyn Chadwick of beyondWORDS: Bookfest 2009, an exhibit at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in June.
There are many intriguing books.
Carla Rae Johnson’s “Hildegard of Bingen Meets Herman Melville.” The 6-foot ship, constructed of maple strips, is equipped with a Scrabble board and seems to ride on a Scrabble tile wave.
Not your conventional books, though. One simply looks like a vege to me.
The exhibit is now far over, but the catalogue is still available to view online at www.bookfest.com. Links to the artists’ own websites are provided too.
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