email response and used BOOKS

Dear Miss Riccius,
You don't know me, but I picked up this paperback at the Ottawa Gallery. I live in Gatineau QC, will this help out in your project. Once I read this book, the Watch that ends the Night, a wonderful novel by Huge MacLennan. At any rate I'm outa here.
Yours truly a real loser-weeper if there ever was one.
PS I prefer to say that I'm from Alymer QC, but that's another loser-weeper story.


This email was sent to the email created for the project: losersweepers@hotmail.com
on April 10, 2005 7:43:25pm.

It is in response to the used books on display on a revolving wire rack as part of the group exhibition. As part of the show, books with eye catching FREE stickers are disappearing fast! Who would have thought that viewers of an art exhibit would actually take something away?! When installing the piece in the gallery, I questioned how the viewer would interpret the work- as an art work or as books free for the taking. There is no other signage aside from the orange and black FREE stickers to inform the audience one way or the other.

I dropped in at the exhibit yesterday and found one sad and lonely book left on the rack! I have replenished the rack and am anxious to receive more used books. So, if anyone has paper backs of any kind they are tired of seeing cluttering up their book shelves or basements, I would be more than happy to add them to the circulation of the art project. Please drop off any used books at The Ottawa Art Gallery during regular gallery hours (check web site for info)

Thanks!