'Coffin and Gramophone'

How comfortable it is to meet up with erstwhile class mates with whom there are so many shared memories of formative years.

It may have been half a century ago since we sat together in a classroom , but I think the years have been kind to us 'Queen Street' young ladies meeting today.
The hair colour may have changed but personalities haven't, despite all the water that has flowed under the proverbial bridges.
Over coffee, there was much 'do you remembering' and long forgotten names and events brought back to mind.

We met at the Poetry Library in the Canongate to look at the collection of tiny paper sculptures, found in libraries, museums and art galleries around Edinburgh and executed by an anonymous artist.

When I say tiny, they are minute, and constructed from pages of print from books. Ten have been found so far, but rumour has it that there are more to be discovered.
The artist must be particularly dexterous, patient, obsessed with detail, very well read, love books and poetry and is probably female. Perhaps we will never know any more.

In the blip, the gramophone is made from pages of Ian Rankin's Exit Music, while the casket is constructed from a nineteenth century edition of The Casquet of Literature.
The sculpture was found in the National Library of Scotland when library cuts were the subject of heated argument across the UK.

This is the blurb from the paper sculpture artist-

"In making sculptures from books I saw a pale shadow of the wonder that is reading, where black marks can become scientific theories, romantic poems...
gruesome stories. This raises the question 'does a book on being read remain a book?' And so I choose to transform the books into other things...."