Fantasies of a Library

Paper Pulped Books and a zine with a silk-screened cover and risographed interior. 2019.

This serves as a meditation on the form of the Library of Alexandria, the mythical library of the old world. How do we read a site like this when we’re only able to view it through fragments - seemingly reading the remnants of what once was? We often speculate from these collections of dust and rock before we start to create ideals of this space.

Though the physical Library of Alexandria has disappeared, it lives on through our collective memory. The act of passing down narratives through time creates a collective storytelling with which we enact our perceptions of spaces like these. Our reading is reinforced and justified through our interpretation of fragments; excerpts displaced but still central to our understanding of time.

Accompanying Zine

With this collection of pulped books I wanted to be specific about what the content of each ‘rock’ was. The interior of the zine contained risographed images responding to low quality black and white photographs of fragmentary stones and included a fold-out map with descriptions of each rock and its content.