Beyond Bombs and Burning Fiona Dempster, Australia, 2015
This book reminds us that even when books are burned, the ideas and thoughts within them survive. They are absorbed into people’s minds; they are shared between friends; and they become even more powerful. In this book, burned pages are held within light timber covers, which can be read as a sacred object or as a book.
The quotes used are:
Every burned book enlightens the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The paper burns but the words fly away (Akiba Ben Joseph)
Books cannot be killed by fire (Franklin D Roosevelt)
In memory of the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi St, the Book St, in Baghdad 2007.
Materials: burned BFK Rives paper, balsa wood, brass hinges and clasps. 2015, Edition of 5.
A calligraphic and book artist, Fiona lives in Maleny, Queensland, Australia.