Readings. - McDowall, John ([s.l.] : [s.n.], 2020)
Readings is part of AMBruno's One and many pages project. On the first printed page, in a short text, Mcdowall describes (or reads) the photograph and the book it depicts - its leaning mass, the texture of the fore-edge and the passages formed by the slightly open covers. On each of the subsequent seven inward folding rectopages is the same piece of writing translated into Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and three German versions. The following page carries the three dots of an ellipsis. The intimation is that the process of translation may be continued into a multitude of other languages, and that any translation is one of infinite possibilities of interpretation and variation - from one to many. The genesis of the book is in two images, in a formal association with Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel, and from this to Albrecht Dürer'searly woodcut title page illustration of St Jerome in his study.
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