Kris Lüdi – Smoke poetry This book is a power

This book is a power plant

Veronika Spierenburg’s In Order of Pages presents a compendium of the artist’s many hours of research and reading at the Sitterwerk Library

anomalies and oddities (some subtle

or photographs for each work

calling for new ways of generating knowledge that spur the imagination

Kris Lüdi – Smoke poetry This book is a powerWhen the most beautiful cows of the Appenzell villages are crowned in autumn, smoke rises over the festival grounds. On this day, childrenoften still in their early single digit yearspuff unabashedly on Krumme cigars, or Stumpen as they are known locally, emblematic representatives of Swiss tobacco culture. They do so not in secret or as an act of rebellion, but in the midst of the village community, which not only tolerates the tradition but is also