Self Scrutiny
2009After reading István Örkény’s, Self Scrutiny, I found a tongue in cheek syzygy to this terse yet information-loaded tale in the now dated card catalog system used in libraries. For this artist book installation, I worked with cards that have been donated courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and images of cards in the still active Petofi Museum archive. They are displayed along with fictitious cards, made from both paper and mirror. Together, they fulfill my strange desire to make the missing hole referred to in the last line: “And the strangest of all, the glass had no trace of a bullet-hole.”