“If we try to see and hear that which is not immediately comprehensible instead of insisting upon understanding it from the outset, it becomes easier to perceive a subtext, with its traces of the buried emotions, memories, associations that colour and shape consciousness. By focusing too exclusively on the intentional meaning of a text, we blot out its poetry, its capacity to stimulate the sensory power of lived experience.”
—Vicki Mahaffey, Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions
Time's Flow Stemmed 
There is currently a beautiful small exposition with some very nice examples of selfmade books by artists as samisdat or small private editions in Berlin, unfortunately no photos allowed: https://www.deeds.world/tag-des-offenen-archivs-in-der-akademie-der-kuenste-eroeffnung-erlesene-bibliotheken-artists-libraries-ab-05-05-2019/
Thank you.
That archive’s Website: https://www.berliner-sammlung-kalligraphie.de/ , their search tool (that amazing archive is free accessible): https://archiv.adk.de/Login