what is the difference between motion and movement?
movement of a book:
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opening and closing
turning
stillness and inertia
condensing and expanding
revealing and hiding
turn back time.
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the torah
gutenberg bible
buddhist prayer wheel
the movement of surfaces
From cave wall to clay tablets, to paper, to digital the written word has developed into multiple forms of a book in order to access knowledge. More often then not, the book is percieved as an authority and a link to different spaces in time and memory. As we are moving more and more into the digital, how is the movement of the book being redefined? Are we missing the ontology of the material book as we enter into the virtual realm, or is it just another space which produces a different type of movement? Does one need the physical touch with the material in order to reaffirm the body and its relationship to space? Is the keyboard/screen enough? At the moment, we think not, yet paradoxically we are on a weblog.
Whether a book is shared by being read aloud or absorbed privately, it is producing movement. It potentially holds the ability to create communities and move thoughts. When read, a book is in a constant state of change whether the words are being moved through a scroll, wheel or from page to page.
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book is choice.
an intimate space.
a collective experience.
layers of movement…(more then we ever imagined)
