Blog entry 26:
"Light is provided by certain spherical fruits that bear the name "blubs". There are two of these bulbs in each hexagon, set crosswise. The light they give is insufficient and unceasing" (Borges, 1944)
As is aparent from prior blog entries, the basis for my Mdes project is The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges - to read the text follow the link below:
http://www.thecriticalpoint.net/index_files/libraryofbabel.pdf
The lights to me are symbolic as the name "bulbs" is written in the story as having inverted commas, this suggests at very least it is the opinion of the Narrator that this name is not fitting. When I think of two fruits ommitting light, two ideas come to mind: The sun and moon and the "fruits" on the trees in The Garden of Eden - the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Depictions of The Garden of Eden:
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| The Garden of Eden by Micheangelo Sistine Chapel, Vatican |
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| TheGarden of Eden by Andrew Annenberg |
The above image by Annenberg depicts the Garden focussing on two trees in particular, bearing fruit. The tree in the foreground is presumably the tree of life de to its clear beauty and the prescence of different fruit, of each of these different fruits there are supposed to be twelve. The tree in the background is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, with the snake wrapped around, which tempted Eve into eating the fruit.
My work in response to this idea:
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| Garden of Eden in the library - the fruits as lights rough idea |
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| The Garden of Eden in the library - the fruits as lights more refined pencil sketch |
The above imagey shows my idea on depicting where the lights or fruits in The Library of Babel originated. Although this idea is not as closely linked to the Borges story as other ideas I feel it is still relevant, and it makes me realise that at some point I am going to have to consider how to move away from the story, which is only supposed to be a basis for this project.
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