11/10/2011
Unbound artist book
12/12 volume two – edition of 12 – £50
alarm! french cock
attention! coq français
24 photographs and a text piece contained in a folded 300 grams archival Arche paper cover.
Inkjet print on archival and acid free double sided fine art paper 220 grams.
This is the second volume of the 12/12 series, 12 books of 12 images each, which are based upon my compulsion for repetitive image making with a dual purpose: to display but also to activate my archive / collection of repetitive images.
Vol. 2 brings together and in dialogue photographs containing ‘word(s)’ and photographs of ‘animals’.
Over the past few years I have been working on a personal index of my digital photography, ending up with a growing number of collections and series of pictures bringing together similar images of the same object, theme or scenery. To name a few, words, French dishes, camera flares, roads, country art, family ties, mother, hats, porcelain, friends, the two virgins, red, beauty of failure….