My favorite display for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2008.
These books fell down from the books-wall-constructions. I personally think these books on the floor made it more interesting.

From Nuit Blanche website:

Tom Bendtsen’s “Conversation #2″ will consist of some 12,000 books configured as an oval measuring 4 metres in width and 4 metres high. A pixilated landscape image will be created from the colours of the books’ spines facing the outside, the neutral/tan colour of the paper will be facing in.

Similar to the earlier work “Argument#4(b)” where the viewer enters the work, an entrance will be constructed in the wall of the piece. Once inside the dark interior of the structure, the viewer will discover small fungal plant-life. This element of the work will not be obvious at first, but will be available to those who take the time to investigate the interior, where they will discover spores, signifying that which is underground, hidden, and regenerating life.

Tom Bendtsen has built a number of works that feature books as physical metaphors of structure, identity and tools of defense and aggression.

www.tombendtsen.com

Did you know? It took me 2 years and more to create this first ‘official‘ post. Sometime ago I installed textpattern. I did finish the design, but got bored and abandon my project. A few weeks ago, trying to scrap -or to save- the site, I installed WordPress.

It’s somewhat difficult to decide between textpattern or WordPress. I already spent a lot of time customizing textpattern and I liked it. It’s a great open source CMS. However, Flickr does not support textpattern. I decided to use WordPress, and I’m liking it.