SIMON MORRIS

"Aesthetics for me is like ornithology must be for the birds" - Barnet Newman

On Saturday 16 February 2002 I climbed a tree in Central Park and tied a book to its branches. The book is wrapped in several ziplock bags to protect it from the weather. It is a free book which belongs to whoever finds it. Please exchange the book you find in the branches of this tree for a book of your choice and record your submission in the notebook provided as a bibliographical reference. This free urban library operates on a policy of exchange and the notebook records a trace of exchanges made in my absence.

The project will end when I return to New York City and remove the remaining book and notebook.

I may return in six months, in several years or not at all.

Simon Morris 16.02.2002

Photographs by Cheryl Donegan.

HOW TO LOCATE

Go to the SE corner of Central Park in New York City. There you will find a gold statue for General William Tecumseh Sherman, b. February 8 1820, d.February 14 1891. Go straight past the statue and into the park. Go straight past the zoo. Go through the gates, marked DELACORTE CLOCK which is decorated with several animals such as a hippo, a bear, a penguin, a kangaroo and an elephant. Go under the bridge and past the Tisch little zoo. Go under a second bridge. You will come immediately to a fork in the path. Take the left hand fork and then you will come across a second fork in the path. Take the right hand fork. You will come to a junction which is marked by a dog sculpture, labeled BALTO. Go left at this junction by the dog and straight under the bridge, labeled the WILLOWDELL ARCH. As you come out the other side of the bridge you will come across another fork in the path. Take the right hand fork. You will then come across another fork in the path. Take the right hand fork and then go straight ahead past two park benches. Immediately after the second park bench, turn right onto the park, leaving the path. Take 20 paces and you will have reached a big gnarly tree with a large split low down. You will find a book tied to this tree.




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