Friday, April 2, 2021

Buzz Spector | Silence : a synopsis





Buzz Spector
Silence : a synopsis
Self-published, 1992
[unpaginated], 21 x 29 x 3 cm., hardcover
Edition of 20 signed and numbered copies


A large oblong book with approximately two hundred blank pages, accompanied by a frosted glass casting of a human tongue. Pictured above in the University of Wisconsin collection. 


"A volume of a couple hundred pages, spread and left open: this book is wide, its wingspan some three and a half feet. Always open, the pages arch up and out from the spine, curved. To sit and stare at it is like watching a seabird coast in an air-current, some silent wind keeping it afloat and pristine white. Pristine: every page is blank. And along the spine, balanced between open, white pages: a glass cast of Spector’s tongue.

It’s a simple concept communicated simply, enjoyable and admirable in its simplicity. It’s a modest, eloquent use of the printed page: left alone, empty. The beauty of the blank pages alone will forever change the way you look -- now yearningly -- at margins."

- Elliot David, Bookslut

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