As you move along the contemporary art exhibit of MOMA, figuring out where to get a bite to eat.Your legs start to whimper after an almost two hour trek on the floor, you notice at the corner of your eye this white glare of a room purposely calling and drawing you in. British born Rachel Whiteread invites you in a chamber of books, books, books and shelves, fourteen feet high; imitating to float in mid air. Dubbed as the "negative space" sculptor, Rachel Whiteread's creative magnetism propels a force courting the hidden side of things. As you look at "Paperbacks", ponder into books you have read and only remember what came out of these books as we leave them stacked or in shelves, collecting dust and grime. Hardbound, borrowed, hand me down books withstanding fluctuations of heat and cold; surviving. The plaster and steel casts of the interior of these books turned inside out channels the mind into years of memories left behind. All inclusive of the good and bad albeit pages undefiled.(The absence of real books and the immortal facet of what is not usually seen behind those shelves gives a whole new meaning to libraries).
A video of Paperbacks 1997 by Rachel Whiteread can be viewed at www.theflounders.multiply.com
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