The Serving Library Annual 2022/23 (Meander)

From the 1960s, Croatian artist Julije Knifer (1924-2004) painted stark, snaking, geometric lines that he called meanders. The monotony and absurdity of this practice, and journaling about his non-progress every day, was for Knifer "a very specific form of freedom". Each painting was not a whole, but part of a larger stream. This edition of The Serving Library Annual explores this theme, where the meander offers both the promise of continuity and the mixed blessing of recurrence.