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A review by edgofe
Aug 9 - Fog by Kathryn Scanlan
2.0
Aug 9 is a very special date for my wife and I, therefore the cover of this book immediately caught our eye while browsing a mom-and-pop bookstore in San Francisco.
It looks like a book; it feels like a book, it is formatted like a book, yet it is not.
Kathryn Scanlan found a diary in an estate sale and from it created this art project, re-arranging phrases and entries from the diary and taking us through a year in the life of its 86-year-old author. Some diary entries, feel warm and comfortable while others feel sad and melancholic, it is up to the reader to imagine and form and idea of the context and situations our diary author is living.
You can read this erasure-style work in less than 15 minutes; this “book?” probably has less than 500 words in total. The style didn't work for me and I would not recommend it. However, it will be remaining on my shelf due to the beautiful hardcover.
It looks like a book; it feels like a book, it is formatted like a book, yet it is not.
Kathryn Scanlan found a diary in an estate sale and from it created this art project, re-arranging phrases and entries from the diary and taking us through a year in the life of its 86-year-old author. Some diary entries, feel warm and comfortable while others feel sad and melancholic, it is up to the reader to imagine and form and idea of the context and situations our diary author is living.
You can read this erasure-style work in less than 15 minutes; this “book?” probably has less than 500 words in total. The style didn't work for me and I would not recommend it. However, it will be remaining on my shelf due to the beautiful hardcover.