Cuaderno verde  | Misha Stroj

This notebook became Stroj’s logbook, accompanying him on his 3-month journey through Chile, in which he pasted images and texts he found along the way. Stroj defines it as an attempt to make transparent his process of approaching Chile.

The book consists of forty-two chapters formulated in a kind of “pan-language” that uses the free association of images and text – each chapter is a sculptural problem to be solved. The collection includes press clippings and texts from three different literary sources: German excerpts from a novel by Ingeborg Bachmann; English excerpts from Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying”; and Spanish excerpts from “El río” by Alfredo Gómez Morel; the latter was transcribed by the artist and also became a self-taught way of assimilating and learning Spanish.