Artist book/leporello/paper sculpture, limited edition of 12.
Materials: Gold on handcut card, gold-plated chain; slipcase: bookcloth on mount board, gold leaf dot.
Size: 15×15×2 cm in slipcase.
Completed: May 2023.
Description: In the context of my Solastalgia series, I wanted to make a beautiful but stark sculptural object telling a story gone wrong. Here we have a small point of light piercing the darkness and beginning to expand, but this growth is undermined before it can become an encompassing circle of wholeness. As structural integrity decreases, the word hadm هدم (“ruination”) becomes visible in absentia as the circle quietly disappears. A golden chain, functioning on a different plane, continues to hold the world together – up until there is no longer a centre to hold.
Available at the studio price of [expired].