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Cover to Cover explores the juxtapositions and meanings one constructs
from the
information, ideas, and images in the library. The piece focuses
on the 30-volume Encyclopedia Americana as a condensed summary of
the library's body-of-knowledge. The encyclopedia's division into
separate manageable volumes results in peculiar subject couplings,
sometimes romantic (Heart to India), sometimes absurd (Photography
to Pumpkin), sometimes perverse (Skin to Sumac). Cover to
Cover exposes this phenomenon by rendering these couplings from
the encyclopedia's black and red book-covers as independent emblems
distributed erratically around a room, no longer in alphabetical
or numerical order. The piece invites contemplation of the arbitrary
adjacencies of knowledge in the library.
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