9,763 Red Boxes
Description
This is the audio version of the blog post '9,763 Red Boxes'. The post was written by Surya Bowyer, who is a volunteer with the Courtauld Connects Conway Library digitisation project. It was first published on 29 January 2021. The post features illustrations by Simba Baylon who can be found on Instagram @simbalenciaga. This audio version is read by Christopher Williams, who is also a digitisation volunteer.
Surya's beautiful post combines memories, instruction manuals from the digitisation project, photographic theory, and quotations from Susan Sontag, Donald Barthelme, William Blake to reconstruct an experience of being in the Conway Library. As she writes: "Officially: There are 9,763 boxes in the Conway Library", but inside each box is a journey waiting to be taken, houses and streets to explore. We hope you enjoy this meditative and creative piece.
You can find the written version with illustrations by Simba Baylon on our blog https://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2021/01/29/surya-bowyer-9763-red-boxes/
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