BA: The Bookends came from a specific request from Printed Matter; something that would be appropriate for a bookstore.

RA: They knew that I had made "books" before, so, bookends or endbooks. They have a function.

BA: When you put them on their side - the idea that you can stack them up - turns them into something else. They lose their function and exist only as sculpture.

RA: You want sculpture, you got sculpture.

BA: Or if you want something functional, you've got bookends.

RA: They can live in either domain; in either case it's a book or in neither case it's a book. It's this is book both times.

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