Schäpers, Veronika: 2^11 // grain morning raccoon peace job barrel hamster nature exercise unable fire crush image patrol pony aerobic key pet ship squeeze bargain move again ability As with all my projects, the starting point for 211 is a literary text. A short Japanese story that fascinated me so much over ten years ago that I wanted to use it for an artist's book and have it translated into German. Unfortunately, I was denied the rights. In the summer of 2022, I was sorting through my archive and came across the extensive preparatory work for the project again, which still fascinated me and at the same time awakened my ambition to circumvent the printing permission that was never granted. I began with various attempts to edit the text to produce a readable result without infringing the copyright, and in the end decided to have the text professionally encoded. Jörn Müller-Quade, Professor of Cryptology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, did this for me. The original Japanese text and its English translation went through an extensive process, resulting in a long sequence of individual terms. They are printed in the book in a monospace font and have no relation to each other. This is precisely why they are so appealing and trigger a series of associations and suggestions in the reader or viewer, as do the illustrations, ten collages of small or large objects, all of which are described in the original text. They are as faithful an image as possible of what I imagined when reading the book. Letterpress printing of polymer clichés on Toshabangenshi ganpi paper, Bicchu ganpi paper and M41 mitsumata paper, Cover made of Kozo paper and Enduro Ice paper with embossed titleThree-part puzzle slipcase with embossed title, 58p, Ed. of 25, num., sign., Karlsruhe, 2023 Request of availability backnext