Monday, September 12, 2011

Strange things are happening in our UNESCO City of Literature Sister City, Edinburgh. Mysterious book paper book sculptures have been popping up in the Scottish Poetry Library:

"One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive - the library's Twitter account - reading: It started with your name @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 in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)."

Read more about the mystery and see the beautiful book sculptures here