The eaten books The insect is moving over book pages, eating its way through the book, page by page in a slow animation. When the whole book has been eaten the insect moves on to the next. Thus a selection of books, important to our culture and civilisation, is disintegrated as the insects erase the lines through their movements. In the end, all that is left are small fragments of text and the traces of the insect’s movements. The animation keeps going, after which the consumed pages are printed and bound into a library of erased books with little else than the titles remaining.
Atlas des Insectes A book from the 18th century with the title Atlas de Insectes containing detailed illustration of insects. As the book is scanned the illustrations on the opposite side of the page shine through the paper. The insects are cut up into their component parts (Wings, Body, Head, Rod), that are then fed into an algorithm, that through a chance process reassembles them into millions of new, made up insect species. Thus a new unique Atlas is developed, overlaid by the shadows of the original and printed on random pages from deselected books about nature. Each book is unique with different content.