Title: More lines exploring space II
Description: This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

"'More lines exploring space II, ' is a tribute and affirmation to the inability to silence or destroy the power of the written word. Paying homage to both Arabic and Western reading practices, the book was designed be read from either right to left or left to right or in both directions sequentially in a boustrophedon fashion. Lines reduce in number if read in one direction, to reflect upon the destruction from the aftermath of the bombing. The build-up of lines, when read in the opposite direction, reflected the collaborative efforts of bibliophiles, poets and artists throughout the world congregating and producing work to reflect on this atrocity and express a united voice to celebrate the power of books and words. This series of bookmarks are designed to allow the reader to select the order they wish to read a book by vertically splicing them and cutting 'v' shaped notches at different positions of the height of each bookmark, placing them throughout the pages, and playing with the sequence of reading patterns, i.e., the highest bookmarked page to be read first, the lowest-last, or vice versa"--Statement from the Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.
Subjects: Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, Terrorism in art, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Visual literature, Specimens, Bookmarks, Writing, History, Literacy, Social aspects, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, England, Redhill (Surrey)
People: Sumi Perera (1956-)
Time periods: 21st century