A Renascence

Conceptual Art Idea: A bookcase full of pages. Ideally the pages are bound in little narrow hardback volumes, but the idea of just a bunch of loose pages has a certain aesthetic appeal, too. These pages contain the sections of books that are commonly cut or removed from "abridged" or children's editions of the same. Call it "The Unnecessary Library." The variety would be fascinating: the boring and the grotesque would both be here, passages alike only in their alleged superfluity. You could organize it by country or by chronology, see what different cultures have considered extraneous. Some of the cuttings would be simple fragments, a few sentences and paragraphs, side observations. Others would be whole stories in their own right, entire characters and plot lines plucked up like root systems. If you wanted to get hamfisted, you could focus on pages edited out by the censors of one dictatorial government or another, though I think that might be a little silly and Cold Warrish, itself unnecessary.

Hello again (still the problem of who I'm addressing). Things have been dormant here lately, for which I take exactly one half of the blame. More to come.