The Mosaic Rooms

I DARE YOU is my hymn to each and every page, person, symbol, codex, mural, tapestry, scroll, carving and oral account throughout history that has been banned, shamed, destroyed or subverted. Each collaged image is a surviving piece of a work or a culture or a tradition whose destruction was attempted or achieved. Somehow, always, these pieces survive or are remade.

The cities and dates spoken in the film are sites at which books were burned or otherwise destroyed throughout known history. I wanted to not only link them, but to point out that these attempts are not ends. That such targeted works and ideas do in fact continue on, even if they take different forms.

So, destroy this book. Drown it. Question its legitimacy, relevancy, need. Strike a match and light this book aflame.

[Made for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project by Stephanie Sauer]
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