The oldest book in the world

Kaye Stanton recalls her inspiration for this work: “It was while tramping in the Franz Josef Glacier region [New Zealand] and constantly looking for ideas for ‘bookworks’ I noticed a piece of schist and announced to my husband that I was going to make a book out of it. ‘Too large,’ he said. So, I found a smaller piece. Lying on the rocky valley floor I was struck by how like a book schist looked.”