The Death of the Moth
a project by Pia Jacques de DixmudeSitting in the library, one notices the many relationships which are entangled through, in, and around the collection of books. These encounters originates from the meeting of bodies; bodies of knowledge, bodies of paper, readers, librarians, students, writers, the disintegrating bodies of silverfishes,…
Some habitants are more discrete than others, such as the moths which fly by night. They become part of other bodies, flutter further and die. The traps which forms look like small tents are hanging on the walls acknowledge however that the cohabitation with the moth is not possible anymore. There is disturbance in the ecology of library. One might remember Virginia Woolf staring through her window in 1942 – a pleasant morning of mid-september. She observes a moth flying from one corner to another of the window. She is fascinated by the extraordinary energy of life and then in a few seconds experiences the strangest of death.
Pia Jacques de Dixmude is a student at the Sandberg department F for Fact.