Hello Gentle Reader
The Future Library Project is an art project, created by the Scottish born German based, visual artist Katie Paterson. The art project is composed of growing a forest of trees in which, and a hundred writers, who will deposit a manuscript to the project that will be published, one hundred years from now, on the paper that the trees will produce. It’s a compelling idea, that asks questions about the human races current trajectory and speed in which we travel to environmental disaster or dystopian future, and asks questions about the changing methods of publishing and writing in regards to an ever changing and uncertain future. Yet the greatest disappointment is that some of us will not be around to see the revealed and published works of these writers, a hundred years from now. Yet for these writers, when the question arises of whether or not they will be read in one hundred years, they most certainly win the argument.
The first writer, to place a manuscript into the literary time capsule, was none other than Canadian writer, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood. Atwood has expressed amazement, and bewilderment, in regards to her contribution to the project; and sees it as an extraordinary thought, that her voice, will once again arise from the depths of time, with her recently deposited manuscript: “Scribbler Moon.” Atwood has compared the project, to “Sleeping Beauty,” as the texts that will be handed over to the project will sleep for a hundred years, and arise after their term of slumber has ended. The next author in line to invest in the project with a manuscript is the United Kingdom’s writer David Mitchell.
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