To make a book is to actualize its ideal space-time sequence by means of the creation of a parallel sequence of signs, be it verbal or other.

Ulises Carrión

A break from the day-to-day movements has meant a chance to go down rabbit holes like one surrounding Carrión’s essay The New Art of Making Books¹ that landed at the right time as I stumble though what to do with the first of the new books I’m working on. Especially the idea that a book doesn’t need to hold true to conventional container forms.