Libraries contain much more than the books on its shelves or in its exhibits. This book explores the concept of a library as an organized collection. Objects collected from wastebaskets and thrown away in various locations are compiled, examined, sorted, photographed, and explained. The rejected object is given the treatment reserved usually for the priceless treasures in the NYPL’s collections.

All objects are gathered from the interior of the Steven Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue in a 3-week span. Research and studies are pulled from various sources on the web.

Size: 13″ by 9.5″
Pages: 32

This micro-book is a series of infographics made to illustrate the library as a place of linguistic dialogue, where language flows through and from. The book attempts to demonstrate the fact of language as a dialectical concept, and how libraries shape dialogue, either through inclusion or exclusion.

The book has much of its data, and is sourced from, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library. All infographics are representing a dialectical of some kind.

Size: 12″ by 9.25″
Pages: 28

This book uses a trip to the Robert R Livingston Masonic library as a jumping-off point into the world of modern ritual magic, and the computer program as a magic wand. The book is around 100 pages of spells and incantations, sourced from Franz Bardon’s “Instructions for Invoking Spirit Beings from the Spheres surrounding us.”

The program that produces the spells is written in Javascript, feeding its source text from procedures of Masonic trials.

The book interprets divine magic as a process of learning and spiritual reinvention. Using the randomness possible for a computer, but impossible for a human, the book attempts to initiate the self-creation of magic to the average person.

Size: 10.5″ by 6.5″
Pages: 116

This booklet presents Claus Eggers Sørensen’s “Typography Is” essay, with response. Throughout the book, vertical white rules appear, dissecting the transcript and calling attention to the dominance of the vertical stroke in the latin alphabet. The rules gradually advance, and then recede.

A small bio, and selected social media posts also appear.

Size: 11″ by 8.5″
Pages: 22