This has to be the most interesting use of an altered book that I have ever seen. A library's garden has an art installation using 40,000 unwanted books. Located in the Lower St. Lawrence area of Quebec, Canada, the installation represents a Garden of Knowledge, according to the artists who created it. Even more interestingly, the book installation contains beds or live, growing mushrooms. The web site says:
- "Sandwiched within and between the reclaimed and decomposing books
- are several edible species of mushrooms like oyster and winecap, an
- intervention that highlights the living, ephemeral and cyclic character
- of these artefacts. "
- You can read the full story here: Mushrooms + 40,000 Books = Garden of Knowledge
- The article makes mention of electronic book readers such as the Kindle. Will books become a thing of the past one day? That would be a shame on so many levels. Books are so much more than just a medium to hold text and pictures. Books are an experience. I hope we never see the end of them.
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