Nichts geht verloren in der Welt
This book is the result of a search for nothingness. The structure equals the first edition of Michael Ende‘s “The Neverending Story” from page 1 to 428. In order to trace the figure of “The Nothing” in the story, most of the text has been removed. What remains are those text fragments, in their original position, that tell of “The Nothing“ in Fantasia. In addition there is a second pictorial level, which is the result of a search for negations and nothings in our world. The paths of the textual and pictorial levels – Fantasia and the human world – will cross again and again in the course of the book. Sunken islands meet extinct species, obsolete technologies meet alien galaxies. What is nothingness? Abstraction, contradiction, exclusion, enigma [...].
