The New Alexandrian Library Book Collection - New additions from Susanna Lakner (Germany), TICTAC (Gemany) and Suus in Mokem (Netherlands)

[cheryl penn]

One of these days some VERY important collector who wants to save all the books sent to me is going to knock on my door and say - we are burying beautiful and important works for generations to come to find. We WANT your collection. What will I say???? I would be HUGELY loathe to part with all these beautiful books. Let me give you some new examples, and you'll see what I mean.  From Susanna Lakner - Playing it Safe in Public Places.

This is an original work from Susanna - the thinnest of transfer work over aged book pages.

Non-narrative works are very interesting to me - access to the content of the book is generally embedded in the title.  In the above image a pretty sinister masked portrait  is juxtaposed with the back view of a crowd.  One can generate meaning privately by making connections between the images - and isn't the book the perfect private place? Even in public, one can escape to the sanctity and quietness of your own mind.

Many thanks Susanna - a beautifully crafted work.

From TICTAC (Germany) - Another fabulous book - untitled and uncolophoned! I know there is no such word - well - there is - I've just used it... And the cover APPEARS upside down - but I know there is NEVER any miscalculation to the way TICTAC places her images and combines her material. I've titled the book "Where?" - am I close P??

Lovely locution - where/will//when I close my eyes (will) my dreams go. Great metaphorical weight to that statement.  I have this phrase "Look through me to you" - somehow I get that feeling in this book.

It feels like time is running out.

"Perils are people

less for much

exemplifies menace

could again banish

to cross the need".

Another beautifully crafted work - as always - thanks for trading with me - o the joys....

A fun double fold accordion book from Suus (Netherlands) - I don't know it its the lost book, or the new one?

Its a complex fold accordion book with many opening permutations. With as many questions - and questioning statements - one of my favorites - a circle has no exit - something like this book! 

Suus writes that she went on a course to learn how to make PRECISE boekies - MAN! I give those kind of courses - but NEVER follow my own advice - make your OWN books Suus - although neat beginnings - they're the best foundation - thank you for sending this little treasure - its going straight from this blog into the library XXX 

[Claire (aka Cleo)]

Wondrous books! Esp. Stunning Susanna!

[Marie Wintzer]

Very nice to see new boekies!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Ah, such thought-provoking boekies. A pleasure.