When I received this book it was in pieces and had slash marks deep
into its pages. As a surface response, it brought to mind that the
pages as well as the act of vandalism and homophobia in our society
create wounds, both physical and psychological. As an artist who also
does book restoration, I repaired the book in such a way as to
accentuate the damage that had been done. The overt stitching is
apparently physical, yet as each page was stitched, the process of
altering the book became meditative and emphasized the deep
psychological implications and social insecurities that are at the root
of this silent and subversively violent act of vandalizing books.
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