Two days ago, I finally started to read Things Become Other Things, by Craig Mod, whose work, writings and wanderings I’ve been following for many years now. I also own the Fine Art edition, but the Random House one is easier to carry around and has extra content, so I chose to read this edition – which is a very well made book, too!
Craig has been a very inspiring guy to me. I think I could write an entire blog post about that kind of strange “one-way relationship” (?) we can live through the web. I mean, he doesn’t know me at all, yet I sometimes feel like I “know him” better than some people I actually happen to meet regularly IRL. Doesn’t that sound weird, even… creepy? Anyway, this is the kind of stuff the internet made possible: following someone’s inspiring work and words for so long that you end up feeling like you “know” them, even though you don’t.
So far, I’m about 100 pages in the book and it’s greatly captivating (does that expression even exist?) and refreshing. I can finally better understand things he occasionally refers to in his newsletters and essays (one example among others: “The Book of John”).
