still is a bookwork project that I’ve been working on for the past few years. While I envisioned this piece as a gathering, the various images, poems and texts don’t appear chronologically. When context shifts, often so does meaning. And I was interested in how the various pieces related and played off each other across spines, over pages and between the covers of this bookwork … how proximity, positioning and layering as well, might also shift a reading.
While some of the poems and images had previous iterations, often as part of an artist bookwork, a video piece, a postcard project or an installation, I have reconsidered and in some cases rebuilt them here alongside pieces that were written, photographed or painted more recently once this still project was underway.
The bookwork’s dimensions are approximately 47 cm (H) X 31.75 cm (W), when the bookwork is closed. So when the bookwork is open, the span of the facing pages is 47 cm (H) X 63.5 cm (W). In sharing some of the pages here, I realize that you might not be able to easily read the text, but I hope that this might offer at least a sense of the work.
I may add more pages in the future but for now, what I’ve shared here are the first 33 pages of still.