Artist Books: Alternets

Alternets is an embellishment of the original book: Nets by Jen Bervin. The book can be opened online at http://www.artistsbooksonline.org or http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/works/altn.xml actual book is owned and available for viewing upon request at Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection. It is also mentioned on Jen Bervin’s website: http://www.jenbervin.com/html/nets.html

Accompanying Narrative

Say this eye, thinly covered, ice-sharp, forgot to die or to remember every earth. The eyelash, a net, cast like a spell at the edge of a sleep. “Are thee not truer when still?” Say this eye did not raw-bruise the room nor invent creation, but merely left things undone. Without blinking, the yellow sun could have stayed closed giving grace time to develop a good backstroke. That tattoo of burnt words we expected surprised us by not showing up. Say this eye, a cataract one, a nameless hole, just never was. Just like that. Say stuttering you can’t. The tongue folds back wet with storm to forget.