I make books to learn something. I knew the Four Freedoms listed by Franklin D. Roosevelt but not the full speech or the context and then wondered what it means today. His powerful refrain, "everywhere in the world, anywhere in the world" takes on new meaning in our digital world. We immediately see images of revolutions and atrocities, we hear voices of citizens from everywhere in the world, we study rocks from a far planet - all this with binary code that speaks all languages. While it seems like the world is growing smaller, soon we will need to say, "everywhere in our galaxy".

Exhibition notes:
Item 0137 - C5-2/3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Small Editions. JBCBA, WAM. 14 Oct 2021 to 28 Jan 2022

Ref: GB/14677