these represent my current project. Each of the books is unique, explores topology in books,
and specifically properties of the moebius strip
Moebius 1 is translucent white, bound with dark red thread. It comes in a box together
with two models, illuminating one of the essential differences between a usual closed strip and the
twisted strip.
Moebius 2 has drawing of always the same knot (the unknot) becoming more and more complicated, and the
turning into the unknot again. On oposing "sides" of the strip, the mirror knots of each other are shown,
so that one could imagine a knot lying "within" the strip and being projected from two sides.
Moebius 2 site in a box, together with a leather tongue which allows the user to experiment and
visualize the knot in the pictures, and a small moebius strip model.
For all books the sounds they make while being read was important for the design. Moebius 3
was specifically designed to give a different sound than its predecants.
Materials and techniques
The moebius strip as well as most of the pages consist of a thick white parchment paper. In brown
parchment paper for Moebius 3 is actually the interleafing of an old picture book, hence
the traces of old dried paint faintly visible on them.
The pages are bound in pairs with a pamphlet stitch.
Materials for the boxes includes cardboard, binder's cloth, and different papers.
