The book is opened at the middle and lies flat in this position in a blue flip-top box.

The book is treated as a site of physical excavation. Beube, known for his collaged and carved book works, approaches the codex as a block of organic material to be hollowed out. By removing the words of the pages, by means of a drill, he transforms a traditional vehicle for information into a literal void, a vessel that holds nothing but the memory of the text it once contained.

The work challenges the reader’s expectation of the book as a source of finished knowledge. Instead, the page becomes a frame for silence. This act of subtraction mirrors the internal process of forgetting or the ‘redaction’ of thought. By stripping away the language, Beube highlights the sculptural beauty of the book’s skeleton, proving that the most profound thoughtforms are often found in the spaces where the words have been meticulously removed.