Text 9: Beyond Imagination, Library Without Limits (2021)

Since the Library of Alexandria, a place where repository of learning assembled, has been fixed in our imagination for so long, in 1901, the German mathematician and science fiction pioneer Kurd Lasswitz imagined a library without limits trying to reduced all written language to essential elements, a Universal Library. But to construct a Universal Library containing all the works ever written and to be written, including all forms of deviation and holding every possible variation became clear that it would be impossible. “No matter how we try to visualise it, we are bound to fail” Lasswitz writes. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges is also another try. The library with a boundless archive composed of an infinite number of hexagonal galleries with specific designations.  

Foot Prints In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier brought me through journeys in different time and places having experienced with hidden information deposited in nature, a journey of global archive. Reading the frozen library by ice sheet and bedrock. Reef, coral and so on. The book opens my eyes breaking the limit of my imagination of vessel – a thing that holds something else within it, like form of animation.  

The book: https://www.amazon.com/Footprints-Search-Fossils-David-Farrier/dp/0374157332