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1988-1990 (imagined, written) 1990-2000 (edited, translated, printed) size: 21 x 23 cm (leporello); 21 x 22 cm (bicodex) / very thick covers: cardboard (bicodex); hardbound in linen (leporello) + plywood box paper: normal white print: deskjet printer (formerly typewriter, Xerox, dot matrix printer) open edition: 14 Polish copies (including 6 bicodices), 11 English copies (including 5 bicodices) i 6 Esperanto copies made so far Imagine
an invisible parallelepiped. Put it in the wood and dip a part of it
into the ground. Then make a literature tomography. As a result you
will get an accordion book of 365 and 1/4 sheets. If you turn the
sheets leftward, you can travel in space from the uppest page-stratum
of o to the bottom one. If you turn the sheets rightwards, you can
travel in time from the present (or maybe from vague and misty
visions of the future) to Big Bang (provided it really had taken
place) or even earlier. Travel in space - it’s the day side
printed
in colours. Travel in time - it’s the night side, dream side,
printed in black. Each page is a separate unit, a kind of
page-picture and due to this the book has a discrete structure. The
end is the beginning, the beginning is the end, but one can start
reading in any place .....
But
you can stitch the sheets and thus get two codices: a day one and a
night one. When you glue them together dos-a-dos then you will get a
bicodex, a sand-glass book, with no beginning and no end but with the
“cover” inside .....
No, I didn’t want it to be a description of a place in the wood. I didn’t want it to be a mock-up. I did want it to be this very place in the wood. Certainly, I haven’t succeeded. |