SFX: Slow dripping sound 

NARRATOR: You started a great book. But then that big project was due at work and then after that you took that vacation, and then right after that those friends came to town. And the book is right where you left it. But when you pick it up, you’ve forgotten everything. The artist, William Allan, understands. 

WILLIAM ALLAN: So Book Life was made to take any given book you wish to rejuvenate, bring back to life.  And put it in the press and the jar was filled with water, so that the book juice sort of soaked into it. 

 It was to rejuvenate a book that perhaps you had forgotten, that was important to you.  Or a book that culture could use, or just for a book that wasn’t any good to give it some life. So there’s a regular dropper to put a few drops in to rejuvenate it. And like all of us that have plants and pets, there’s a large dropper to put a big shot when you go on vacation.  

I have always had, I think, a natural affinity to objects and relationships.  All the boxes, almost, were about how the world works and how people do things. And not negatively or not positively, but just the phenomenon of us.  

SFX: drops slow  

ALLAN: They’re private little stories.