Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer2010

A masterful work of storytelling, a unique sculptural object created through a collaborative process between Visual Editions and author. A curiosity with the die-cut technique was combined with the pages' physical relationship to one another and how this could somehow be developed to work with a meaningful narrative. This led to Jonathan deciding to use an existing piece of text and cut a new story out of it - his favourite book, 'The Street of Crocodiles' by Bruno Schulz. Writing, cutting and proto-typing has created a new story cut from the words of an old favourite.