art

Echo Graph

Book Sculpture

Caballero’s Book Sculptures celebrate the materiality of poetry and the renewed cultural agency afforded to verse via blockchain provenance.

As with the other tomes in Caballero’s Book Sculptures, Echo Graph, the fourth from this 8-part series, has a unique ISBN and the anatomy and structure of a traditional book.

The collector of the physical 1/1 book receives a 1/1 video work of a single page of the book endlessly turning while Caballero reads the poem in addition to an inscription of the poem onto the Bitcoin blockchain, accentuating the artist’s expansion of the ways poetry can be experienced, exhibited, recorded and transacted in the digital age.