tura marrang now showing...

 I have loved bringing some of my booky works (old and new)

to the opening of the beautiful new Tura Marrang Library and Community Centre
in Tura Beach - far couth coast NSW

(ie just down the road a bit from my creek home) 

The new space is featuring some of my book-boat images

 

and little book boats I've made
as well as a book boat building site
for library patrons to make some little paper book-boats
to add to the display

I've cheekily popped a few boats in odd places... 

my video work looked FAB in the AV meeting room for opening day ceremonies...

but without a doubt my favourite thing
is how my 2 loooooooooooong books look
in the funny little wedge shaped display cabinet...

the looooooooooong books and boat installation
will be on display for a couple of months

( I think they like hanging out in this space...)

I love it when a plan that seems good in theory
actually comes together as hoped in practice

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"To build up a library is to create a life.
It’s never just a random collection of books."
Carlos María Domínguez

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some paths are less obvious....

although there are numerous book/path images or allusions

within  'codex infinitum' 

there are also less obvious paths that folk can travel

attached to the side of the old wooden school desk in the middle of switchback 

is a small printed square

(can you see it?)

if you happen to have a smart device with a QR reader installed

and you scan the code

this is where you will be magically transported...

the unfinished book from ronnie ayliffe on Vimeo.     ...      

codex infinitum - the infinite book...

my solo exhibition - codex infinitum 

opened October 10 at Switchback Gallery...

 

the gallery entrance is now guarded by my book pillars 

 

Pulvis et umbra sumus - 'we are dust and shadow'

 

inside the gallery...

 there are large and small photographic prints,
 

a large book structure and a small handmade book

on the middle partition is my large print...

  Ancora Imparo - 'I am still learning'

which is also the name given to the installation

recreated in the middle of the gallery...

 

 

the installation contains the looooooong coptic bound book

codex inperfecto - the unfinished book

 

 

 behind the middle partition

 hidden from initial view...  

 

 

is the large 

 

(and beautiully lit)

 

 

 

  nec tamen consumebatur - 'and yet it was not consumed'

 

 

also in this space are three works from 2010 that long term blog readers

will already be familiar with... 

 

Novus libri scientia - The New Books of Knowledge  

   

Flammeus libri ardor - The fiery passion of the book 

and

 genius loci

as well as a small coptic bound book  

 

carpe diem

 

 

 

I'll share more of what's inside this small book 

and some more of the individual works in the show

*next time*

 

 

 

so with a last look over my shoulder -- it's on its own.... 

 

 

codex infinitum - the infinite book

 

October 10 - November 7,  2013

Switchback Gallery, Churchill Victoria 

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art gesture sunday - week 12....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one red book on a post

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