In “Withdrawn from Circulation,” I worked with books pulled from circulation

from Honolulu libraries. I am interested in removing the book’s utilitarianism and

moving the material into another presentation through the act of repeated and

exaggerated dog-earring. The interior of a book is traditionally an individual and

private experience and reading. For these books, their interiors are exposed

and rearranged – the private experience is no longer accessible. They have been

quieted, now the barnacles growing on library walls as people move toward

new ways of engaging with text.