Craig Conley makes visual art from digitized “non-circulating” library books. As he explains in his artist’s statement:
Some library books, for a variety of reasons, become “non-circulating.” … It’s a precious status, indicative of value, rarity, and refererence-worthiness. Yet there’s a tinge of sadness, too — a hint of decrepitude and dormancy. We asked a book-whisperer and learned that books do wish to circulate, to be worldly, to mingle, to be at large. … Then, through a painstaking process involving collaged elements from non-circulating volumes of old magazines, we add some talisman-like flowing imagery to break the stagnation …
