Since 1994 I made many altered books as artworks. You can see some of them here.
In 1994 sometimes people asked me why I had destroyed books for my art. Books are holy objects. in a not religious way. They are harbingers of culture and witnesses of freedom. Nazis and other oppressors burned books and forbade them.
Many years ago I used to show to people that I put awful books for my artworks. Expendable ones. But I felt guilty anyway.
Today there are a lot of artworks made of books.
Seeing books destroyed by art is not a shocking view anymore.
I have conflicting feelings about that.
