The Library at Elsinore
Large image:
Caption:
bookcase installation
books, acrylic and pigment ink
151.7 x 114 x 20 cm
2007
Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford
Maquette for The Library at Elsinore
books, acrylic and pigment ink
36.8 x 49 x 15.5 cm
2006
installation view
Last year at the Ashmolean Museum I showed a maquette of a single shelf which contained all the titles (of actual books) that derive from Hamlet's speech, To be or not to be.....
Now the whole play is covered and next week as one of the hangers of the Summer Exhibition at the RA I hope to find a nice corner for it.
Tom Phillips Studio Diary May 8th 2007