Xiaoze Xie Preserves a Growing Collection of Banned Books in Porcelain

What strange time we live in. Their is an abundance of knowledge but little way of discerning truth and so we turn back to carving stone as it were.

Chinese-American artist Xiaoze Xie has spent decades making porcelain facsimiles of banned books — capturing the worn spines, dog-eared pages, and library stamps of volumes that have been suppressed or censored. The work transforms ephemeral acts of erasure into permanent ceramic objects, giving forbidden texts a kind of indestructible afterlife. Source: This Is Colossal

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