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I'm still thinking about the implications of last week's post on the fold. I remember seeing a video of Giuseppe Penone holding his hand around the trunk of a young tree. His fingers could almost completely encircle it. He then had a cast made of his hand in that clutching shape, going on to replace his flesh and blood hand with the cast, which I think was in metal....


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The Fold

My last post about a contribution to an artist's book project reminded me of the importance of the fold as an idea. I had read Deleuze's 'The Fold' a while ago and for him the fold was part of what he called 'the theatre of matter', an idea that I found particularly powerful. Deleuze was not the only writer to find great significance in the fold as an idea. He cites the work of ...


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At one point last year I was asked by the curator Frances Woodley if I would contribute to an artists' book project and as I like to challenge myself, thought it an interesting thing to get involved with. I had to come up with 20 images, all of which were to be folded in half when they were inserted and bound into the 20 artists' books that would result from the process. ...


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At Christmas time I put together a calendar, that I use to give to friends as presents. I try to write a small aphorism or quip that can sit in the calendar's date boxes, so that people have something to think about every day. The fact that many people who get them hang them in the toilet, seems to suggest that is where we like to sit and have a little something to think abou...


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Mid-Edo Japan: Anatomical flap ...


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