{"id":71,"date":"2009-12-12T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T22:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T04:01:34","slug":"voire-dire-a-strange-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liarogers.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/voire-dire-a-strange-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Voire Dire A Strange Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voire Dire<\/em> by Tammy McGrath<\/p>\n

The creatures hovering over the piles of books in Tammy McGrath’s Voire Dire are a strange book club. Although they are charred, you can still see some of the titles and covers. The books aren’t completely destroyed, just more than a little damaged.<\/p>\n

I just want to sit down and sift through the books. They make me so curious, is that a Stephen King novel? I can’t be sure. John Grisham, but is that Proust? I can’t read them all and even though some covers seem\u00c2\u00a0familiar\u00c2\u00a0my memory can’t bring the names to the surface. I don’t see many that I recognize from reading, but I’m still a little shocked. Even now, when information flows freely online and (arguably) books are outdated it still hurts to see them scorched.<\/p>\n

The books are shocking, but I can’t take my eyes of the bat-like creatures. They seem huge and a bit intimidating. I know that bats are noisy and smelly, but these are ominous in their stillness and silence. I don’t want to turn my back on them, but I also want badly to touch them. They seem feathery and soft; their heavy round bodies seem too big for their wings. I worry about the tails, will they whip around all of a sudden? The creatures as sculptures are fascinating and menacing.<\/p>\n

The beasties can simultaneously be seen as guarding and attacking the books. They hover protectively over the piles, chasing away whatever set them on fire, but like those optical illusions<\/a>, these creatures might have been the ones to start the fire. Each of the creatures seems to have its own nest of books. I can’t tell if any of the books are common to the mounds.<\/p>\n

I know the books come from people who know Tammy, but I can’t help but feel there is more story. I looked for a website that would contextualize the books for me. I want to know the reason behind the choice of book. What made her friends pick that particular one? I like books and I like to hear people talk about books.\u00c2\u00a0I missed the opening for this show and I’m sure that some of the people who gave books were there. But even though I missed out on their tales, I think I like Voire Dire<\/em> better as a solitary experience. The way the exhibit is laid out it it feels more intimate this way and I think at an opening it would have felt clausterphobic; especially so since Tammy is so well known here.<\/p>\n

When did this happen? December 10, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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