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PAPER TRAIL It started in March last year. The Scottish Poetry Library received an unexpected gift – a tree, fashioned from words and paper, blossoming from the book it rested upon. The artist was nowhere to be seen.
Since that time ten more of these delicate
sculptures have appeared in arts institutions across Edinburgh. All are built from pages of real books, including prose by Robert Louis Stevenson and Ian Rankin, and poetry by Edwin Morgan. The most recent creation was made especially for Rankin, and appeared at The Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield last November.
The sculptures are now due to exhibited all together at The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh in spring 2012, yet the sculptor remains completely anonymous. Who is he or she? An author? A frustrated librarian? With no more clues to go on, perhaps we will never know . . . ■ Read more at list.co.uk/books
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