Based on a poem written in Blagoveshensk, Siberia about the similarity in curatorial presentation of cultural artifacts all over the world. The very display of tools for living from another age cuts them entire from the lives they intend to represent. The paradox is that the primary means by which the lives of the "others" that have come before are revenant and born again in mind is the means to their dissolution of identity. This makes an interesting play on the form of a book, which lays waiting to be whole (born again) in the eyes and hands of the reader, and is simultaneously destroyed with their attentions. The layered color Xeroxes are of collages made from the discards and de-acquisitioned books from the Cooper Union art library, the covers of the edition also came from the same source. The black and white Xerox drawings are by Adam Januz, the letterpress typography was printed by Sara Parkel, the images were printed by the publisher. Bound at Booklyn.

Ref: GB/10375