I've been thinking about communication and freedom of speech and thought and how to make the 1998 Human Rights Act more visible before it disappears. Having spoken to several artist friends about the possibility of mounting an exhibition or something I decided it was about time I did something more concrete than talk. 
So my first step was to print off a copy of the basic tenets of the act and to scribble a few first thoughts on what each of those rights mean to me and to plant them in library books. This was an interesting exercise in itself because it is very easy to think from a selfish egotistical point of view, to think only of my own human rights but the basis of the act is that it is all human rights and that is very much key to it's importance. 
The idea of planting the notes in library books came from finding a samaritans bookmark in a library book a few weeks ago. And then thinking about other notes and letters I have found in borrowed or secondhand books, small traces that are all the more potent for being such very small fragments of a persons being and the books history. 
I'd also been thinking about how to relay information without using the internet or regular postal systems. Hand to hand, flags, fires, drumming and kites had all suggested themselves but simple is sweet and what could be simpler than putting a slip of paper between the leaves of a book. 
In the interests of getting started my first messages are not at all pretty or arty, they were made in a hurry. However they are planted like seeds in various books in Bristol Central Library. I hope to continue this project and would like to invite other people to join me if they feel like it.