BOOKS
Humanity has become unbound from the very elements that
made our being possible. We lost it in our journey to ever
more, ever faster, ever bigger. Reconnecting requires to
become unbound from the frames of our doing as they hinder
us from life lived in oneness with Nature.
Therefore Polaroids as framed images have become unbound
from their recognisable white to illustrate the need for new
frames of thinking. Words have been arranged to reflect on
our bond with Nature and design re-iterates the various roads
we need to travel to recreate our bond.
May our travels to bound with Nature be safe and swift.
Book size: 15 x 38 cm, 64 pages in total
Inside are 3 books in various papers and sizes + a print handbound to the back cover
Handmade paper, natural white and grey papers, metallic paper
Digital offset, gold and black riso printing
Silkscreened cover on handmade paper
The book is handcrafted by dienacht Publishing team
Edition of 350 copies, including Collector’s Edition of 30 copies
FRICTION
A movement of becoming, of eternal becoming
When reading the texts of Simone de Beauvoir, I sometimes feel as if my own inner thoughts about life are being voiced.
The core of her philosophy is close to my heart: ‘Life is a process of becoming, of eternal becoming’.
This raises the question why we humans often refuse the simple notion that change is something unavoidable?
Is it the fear of the uncertainty or the unknown? For leaving safety and comfort behind? Yet, no day is the same.
Tomorrow will be different from today or yesterday. No individual is ever the same. Nobody is yesterday’s version.
As Simone de Beauvoir wrote: ‘If I read my diary from yesterday; it is if I look at mummies of deceased versions of my ‘self`’.
Wouldn’t it be wise to accept the fact that we and the world around us will be continuously different?
Because in all this change, beauty is to be found. Beauty to rekindle our thoughts, our ideas, our (human) connections,
our society and especially our bond with Nature.
By emerging myself in Nature, I move into a different time, sync with the slow rhythm of Nature and become deeply aware
of her beauty, her changes and the interconnectedness in the smallest of details. In Nature I can embrace my own impermanence
and feel inspiration for my own process of becoming. Nature however seems not to be fazed by me, my existence, my dreams, desires or fears.
It appears to live in a completely different time frame.
For me, this is the friction of synchronising the eternal becoming of humankind with Nature.
In Friction I juxtapose our human time by photographing professional ballet dancers (who had to retire at the age of 35)
with images of the harsh nature of Death Valley and other places, where time seems to play no apparent role.
Together they present the friction we as humans need to overcome to be able to continue to live on our planet.
Epilogue
Another reason for using the texts of Simone de Beauvoir is that she is regarded as a feminist.
Because next to the friction I see between humans and Nature, there is also the friction between men and women that concerns me.
As Simone de Beauvoir said: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’.
This feeling of inequality is still present in our society. It is something that is more subtly woven through my story as I have tried
to present female sensitivity as a strength. A strength that might prove to be crucial in successfully bridging the friction
between humankind and Nature.
YOU CAN ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE SERIES ‘FRICTION’ ITSELF, IF YOU’D LIKE
Softcover
Publisher: IBASHO&the(M)éditions
Dimensions: 23.4 x 31.2 cm
Pages: 90
ISBN: 979-10-95424-36-9
Price: € 85,= excl. shippingcosts
The Concept of Ma
Book
50 pcs, hand-made
- 20 pg’s 14,8 x 29,5 cm in Japanese bind
- 14 prints 9,3 x 18,6 cm on Torinoko Washi paper
mounted on black Ami-paper
- 3 pages Canson calque satin
- 1 page silver metallics paper
- folded slip-cover 16 x 30,5 cm of Simili Japon paper
- mounted inside a double page of Canson calque satin
For purchase see underneath or IBASHO or Artibooks
There’s also a special edition in a perspex box with a silver gelatin print.
For the whole series and the story behind it you can have a look at the page of The Concept of Ma
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The Concept of Ma
Perspex box with Silver Gelatin Print and book
10 pcs, hand-made
Book
- 20 pg’s 14,8 x 29,5 cm in Japanese bind
- 14 prints 9,3 x 18,6 cm on Torinoko Washi paper
mounted on black Ami-paper
- 3 pages Canson calque satin
- 1 page silver metallics paper
- folded slip-cover 16 x 30,5 cm of Simili Japon paper
- mounted inside a double page of Canson calque satin
Silver gelatin print
- silver gelatin print of Disguise or Life 7,5 x 15 cm
- mounted on 300 g black paper
Perspex box
- in a perspex transparent box of 16,5 x 31,5 x 4,0 cm
Price: Special edition € 400,= (ex shipment).
For purchase IBASHO or Artibooks
For the whole series and the story behind it you can have a look at the page of The Concept of Ma
I’M SORRY, SOLD OUT AT MY PLACE
