You can read this work by Atkins here, courtesy of the Whitechapel Gallery and the Tate.
I kept visualizing the text as a vertical structure, the pages representing palette-shaped floors assembled around a giant human spine, floors which could be (if scaled appropriately) descended or ascended in a spiral manner. The floors would bear the text. Perhaps these would be constructed of clear (tinted?) lucite so one could read forward and backwards by looking/progressing down or up.
Here is some further context for Atkins.
An interview about a sort of elegy for Breton and the ill-fated collection the poet left at his death:
I kept visualizing the text as a vertical structure, the pages representing palette-shaped floors assembled around a giant human spine, floors which could be (if scaled appropriately) descended or ascended in a spiral manner. The floors would bear the text. Perhaps these would be constructed of clear (tinted?) lucite so one could read forward and backwards by looking/progressing down or up.
Here is some further context for Atkins.
An interview about a sort of elegy for Breton and the ill-fated collection the poet left at his death:
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