A
book about transforming images into lines and patterns. Published in
2020 during the pandemic, we transformed a folder of images with
paintings, photographs, maps, sculptures, screenshots and other findings
into digital drawings that have been superimposed and reworked in the
book layout. The drawings are accompained by the short story written by
Jorges Luis Borges that gives the book its name. Borges’
essay is an attempt to convey the character of the man that William
Shakespeare was as a human being from what little is known about this
aspect of the Bard’s life.The writer is completely in awe by the genius
of Shakespeare. But, in the end, he falls back on the fact that there is
a lot to be said about the life of Shakespeare’s works, but not much to
be said about Shakespeare himself. This fact is evident in the essay,
as Borges represents Shakespeare as the face of many, but not the face
of himself.
“There was no one inside him, nothing but a trace of chill, a dream dreamt by no one else behind the face that looks like no other face (even in the bad paintings of the period) and the abundant, whimsical, impassioned words. He started out assuming that everyone was just like him; the puzzlement of a friend to whom he had confided a little of his emptiness revealed his error and left him with the lasting impression that the individual should not diverge from the species.”
“There was no one inside him, nothing but a trace of chill, a dream dreamt by no one else behind the face that looks like no other face (even in the bad paintings of the period) and the abundant, whimsical, impassioned words. He started out assuming that everyone was just like him; the puzzlement of a friend to whom he had confided a little of his emptiness revealed his error and left him with the lasting impression that the individual should not diverge from the species.”
