Future Library
A conversation with Katie Paterson
We explore the treasure troves of artists’ libraries. Celebrating books and their writers, editors, publishers, designers and readers, The Artist’s Library is a column about what to read next.
Were you one of those children who buried treasures in the soil, hoping that someone belonging to a future generation would dig them up and imagine a whole story around them? The young Margaret Atwood must have been one of those children and, doubtless, visual artist Katie Paterson too.
With Future Library, UK-based Katie Paterson started a project that allows us, as well as future generations, to travel in time. No less than Margaret Atwood was the first author invited by Paterson to write a (…)
