Re-cover project is an art project that consists in the creation of alternative covers for existing books. There are no pre-set criteria for the choice of books, other than being a reflection of our interests and references, and the featured photographs or snapshots are taken while out and about, only very rarely with a specific title in mind. This lends the process a spontaneous and experimental character that resurfaces in the playfulness of the final work.
This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009. Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a German author and philosopher. Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night, in English) was first published in 1800. "Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
The Hours - Michael Cunningham These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2008. Michael Cunningham is an American writer. The Hours was first published in 1998. The Hours was adapted to cinema in 2002. "If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
This picture was taken in the Whole Foods Market, New York, 2009. Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer.Sputnik Sweetheart (Spūtoniku no koibito, in Japanese) was first published in 1999. "and it came to me then that we were wonderful travelling companions but in the end, we were no more but lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits from far off, they looked like beautiful shooting stars when the orbits that these two satellite of ours, happened to cross paths, we could be together maybe even open our hearts to each other but that was only for the briefest moment the next instant, we would be in absolute solitude until we'd burn up and became nothing"
These pictures were taken in the London outskirts, in 2009. Dr. Benjamin M. Spock was an American pediatrician. A Better World for Our Children was first published in 1994. "I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies."
Hymnen an die Nacht - Novalis
