From
Here To There
This
book took a while to get going – what would it be like? What would
it be about? The idea of "pages" between "covers"
appeared practical…but what sort of pages and covers? A book about
books saved my bacon. Folded paper leaves seemed interesting and
do-able, as did setting them inside a cover of sorts to enclose
them. But most books are about something. The intricate folds
suggested a map…and I had spent some time working with maps. A
map orders some aspect of reality, sorting, saving and discarding.
What was I mapping this time? What would be selected and shaped
into a conscious path, what left to float as superfluous to this
particular journey? The quotation, "where ever you go, there
you are", has always seemed useful – why not narrate a movement
from HERE to THERE? That has become the story – the mapped path
and underlying it, the paths discarded, not taken. |
