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2014 Ongoing

Borrowed Blood

This whole project is about books. About what the object that is a book can do, and especially about what a novel might be if the whole form was upended and rethought.

Collage and found materials on paper

Borrowed Blood asks an apparently simple question, but one that unpacks in a very complex manner. What if a novel was constructed according to the (largely unwritten) rules of the artists book?

Set in the Balkans in the last years of the 20th century, an unnamed city situated on an endless lake, and in the liminal spaces in-between, each chapter is composed accordingly to a set of design rules that are drawn from the content of that installment, and the overarching construction of the whole work.

Chapters 1, 2 and 4 are available now.