I love idiosyncratic shelving systems.
The interval right before cataloging class seems as good a time as any to link to Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project. She’s an artist who takes books and stacks them so that the titles on their spines tell a story. Some of them are hilarious: Leonardo da Vinci as a Musician on top of Tone Deaf and All Thumbs?, and the sequence A Day at the Beach, The Bathers, Shark 1, Shark 2, Shark 3, Sudden Violence, Silence. Some are weirdly poetic: Why Spiders Spin, The Memory of All That, Bitter Music. All of it inspires immediate envy. Her work with reconstructed maps is also really cool.
(Via LISnews.)
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