Artist Nancy Gifford assembled 2000 plus book covers to create LAMENT, a bookish installation for the Requiem for the Bibliophile Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Nancy Gifford says, "Lament is a poem of mourning. In the center of this melange is a restful place which represents the beginning of it all - The Word, as a stain upon the silence. Lament is a final bow to the book as a referential object. I ponder what books represent; knowledge, and how knowledge expands by a form of accretion, on fact upon another, till it becomes a body of knowledge. Lament is an accretion of some 2000 book covers, layer upon unruly layer, no longer readable, no longer even decorative."

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