Sunday Salon: The Library Phantom

Thanks to my good friend Kevin, I was alerted to the fact that there has been a library phantom at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Apparently, a librarian was walking through a reading room when she came upon this:

followed by this:

with these words:

"'This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas...' said a note, addressed to the Library by its twitter name "@ByLeavesWeLive". There was no artist signature, no one to thank. The staff, totally nonplussed, asked on their blog if anybody knew who made it. They described the gift as a "poetree" and waited. Nobody claimed authorship."

Then, at the National Library of Scotland, there appeared this:

"The scene was carved from a book, a mystery novel by Ian Rankin, one of Britain's bestselling crime writers. It seemed like a visual pun, because the book's title was Exit Music."

The mystery deepened when in one of Edinburgh's local movie theaters there appeared these:

Next, there was a dragon at the Scottish Storytelling Centre:

then two more scuptures at the Edinburgh International Book Festival:

The final scupture was found at the Central Lending Library:

 

Perhaps one of the most interesting things of all is that the artist's identity remains a secret. A fitting solution to a perfect mystery, in my opinion.

(Of course, don't forget to view the Joy of Books animation here.)