As last Friday afternoon links of 2011, there is a look back at perhaps the best story of the year, the story of the mysterious paper sculptures of Edinburgh. It goes like this:
In March of this year, library staff members found in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh a beautiful filigree sculpture made of paper: It consists of a small paper tree on a book next to a broken papierenes egg, covered with gold and filled with shredded paper, which folded the poem "A resulting trace of Wings "by Edwin Morgan. Out a message to the Twitter account of the library:
"It started with yourname @ byleaveswelive and became a tree ....... We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books ... a book is so much more than pages full of words .... This is for you to support of libraries, books, words, ideas ..... a gesture (poetic maybe?) "
Two months later, standing in the National Library of Scotland, another sculpture. Because the message:
For @ natlibscot - A gift in support of libraries, books, words, ideas ..... (And against their exit)
Shortly thereafter, a third in an arthouse cinema, again with a message:
"For @ movie house - A gift in support of libraries, books, words, ideas ..... and all things * magic *. "
And so it goes on until the end of the year, ten papery art to be discovered: Paper dinosaurs carved from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World," a Jekyll & Hyde Sculpture in the Robert Louis Stevenson's room in the Writers Museum, a dragon's nest at the Scottish Storytelling Centre .
Throughout Edinburgh asks: Who is the unknown artist, or the unknown artist behind this mystery?
Are there any hot leads, but then there is a surprising claim of responsibility.
Read the full story (in English).
Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2012
Her
Stefan Heijnk
