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Es Devlin's “Library of Us” is a 50-foot revolving library installed at Faena Beach in Miami Beach during Miami Art Week 2025. The monumental art installation contains 2500 books including the texts that have influenced Es Devlin’s thinking, life and practice.

Es Devlin: Library of Us / Faena Beach, Miami Beach. Miami Beach (USA), December 6, 2025.
Transcript
00:00Oh
00:30That's pretty, that's pretty good.
00:39Alice, don't you want to go to the hospital?
00:42It's all out on, kids on!
01:00It's time to liven the senses.
01:09A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber,
01:15one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings.
01:20Tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air
01:23and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin.
01:28To make sense is to release the body from the constraints
01:33and the hopes to write out ways of speaking.
01:36It tends to renew and great thinking out
01:39with one's felt awareness of the world.
01:42It is to know the first way of the world to where they are.
01:47It's our characters with a huge story
01:51that is physically on the heart of all lives.
01:54Participants within the vast imagination.
01:57they're dreaming of the block.
02:00What are you doing?
02:01It's not the other person.
02:02What is it?
02:03What are you doing?
02:04What are you doing?
02:05Please be aware.
02:06We're going to let you go to the house of the house,
02:07we're going to...
02:08...otzdem...
02:09...between the exciting living living living.
02:11We're going to get ourselves to the world
02:13to another,
02:14...and we're going to get ourselves to the highest...
02:18This is the structure of deception.
02:27We have a sense in this world by rendering those sounds of our identity.
02:34This is the sense of your deception is this one you can contain.
02:38The terrain enters into a stone to the extent we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
02:47To our indigenous ancestors and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their war traditions.
02:59The language is their sleep and possession.
03:03And it is a property of the animate there within itself.
03:07An expressive, telepractic power.
03:10In which we, among the coyotes and the crickets, will participate.
03:16Each creature enables this expressive magic in its own man.
03:21The honeybee with its wobble dance no less than a bellicose harrowing friend singing in.
03:27Nor is this power restricted solely to them.
03:31Whispered hush, the uncut brass is at dawn.
03:35A length of bells of trunks roaming in one another in the deep woods.
03:42Or the laughter of virtuos as the wind of gusts through their garages.
03:47There, I think, of many vending enemies, without a missing camera.
03:53In the Pacific Northwest, I met a man and scorned himself in the speech of Needle of Evergreen.
04:02On a breezy day, you could drive him blindfolded.
04:06Any patch of dust or forest, a place here is still blind beneath the particular tree.
04:13After a few moments, he may tell you, by listening, just like the species of pine or spruce,
04:20beef burr stood above him.
04:22Whether he stood beneath a camelous fur, or a grand fur, a sytchus bruce, or a western red cedar.
04:30His ears rotundly sent to the different dialects of the trees.
04:40We see a lot of gravitating towers, a lot of earth from a larger body,
04:47calibrated large units, and possibly the familiar canvas of our waking powers.
04:54The tensions and downs of our individual trainers,
04:58the wind, storming back,
05:00extremes into the seeping substance of our muscles.
05:04We give ourselves over to the influence of the breathing earth.
05:09The sleep is the shadow of the earth as it seeps into our skin and spreads throughout our limbs,
05:16dissolving our individual limb,
05:19composing cells, tissues, organs,
05:23and feeds into the lays to the limelight
05:49You
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