
At the time, around 1998, everybody was renovating apartments and I couldn't work: by day I recorded a soundtrack out of the noise to make a video, at night I was drawing and collage-ing a long series of small books.
Some time later I asked a photographer friend, Renato Sala, to help me and make photos of some books, as if they were read by a Canova's statue, or by a skeleton.
The pictures were printed in ribbons, to give a rough idea of the leafing-through process.