Abandon: project for book, camera & city

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Artist Aprille Best Glover’s method is unusual.

One, cut up a book. In this case the book is Dante’s Inferno.
Two, arrange its fragments in space and time.

The space is the city Firenze, but Firenze as hell itself – a series of concentric circles centered around the Plazza Signoria. The time is April 1-4 during holy week 2007. The resulting guerilla installation is a curious blend of the monumental and the ephemeral, of formal design and random chance.

Canto I

Midway upon the journey of our life 

I found myself within a forest dark,

For the straightforward pathway had been lost…

 

-Dante

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Abandon: project for book, camera & city
Abandon: project for book, camera & city
Abandon: project for book, camera & city
Abandon: project for book, camera & city
Abandon: project for book, camera & city

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