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Excerpts from the Library of Babel is conceived as a reversal of Borges' story: not the archive that contains every possible book, but rather a collection of just one - Borges' own - the book in which the story of the book is most fatefully told. The idea behind the exhibition is to re-tell Borges' story multiple times, taking numerous copies of the text and finding within them the history that is particular to each individual book - the stories left by the readers themselves. In order to do so, I use a process called Kirlian photography, an imaging technique that uses electricity instead of light to generate its pictures, and can therefore reveal parts of this hidden history of the book. Any mark on the text that effects the conductivity of the electrical current should make a difference to the way the image appears - fingerprints, marks or underlines, coffee stains or other signs of wear and tear left by the owners and readers of the story.

Excerpts from the Library of Babel is conceived as an ongoing project, that will continue to grow as I collect additional copies of Borges' book. I sometimes image pages from other significant books as well, which I exhibit under the project title Aurora Textualis.