“Eat Me”
`Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it
makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I
can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't
care which happens!'
- ‘Alice
in Wonderland’ 1865
“Eat Me” (Dolphin
Gallery, 4 - 5th June
2009) consists of about 1000 books with greenish covers. The books
include a wide range of topics. Beside straightforward subjects in connection
with the material world such as gardening, pets, zoology, plants, agriculture,
biology, ecology, earth science, and environmental study, they also include the
topics of history, art, poetry, politics, education and economy. The majority
of the books are borrowed from seventeen Oxford University
libraries and one Oxfordshire public library (Westgate central branch). The
publication period of the books spreads from as early as 1893 right up to 2009.
A 19-meter-long wooden shelf was created site-specifically to support the
books, which allows a continuous visual experience of the spectrum of green
colour.
