...there is no end
Designer, concept: Louis Lim
Photographer: Louis Lim
Poet: Beth Jackson
Categories: Bookwork / Digital Books, Photobooks, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Scrolls & Concertina Books
Reference no.:L/Lim.L-Jac.B/19.00 Place/Shelf:4nthCR
| Book title: | ...there is no end |
| Year made: | 2019 |
| Place made: | Australia/Japan |
| Original: | Yes |
| Edition: (No. in Edition) |
51 (22) |
| Dimensions: | 205 x 255 |
| Binder: | bound by L Lim |
| Physical description: | glued coptic binding and concertina |
| Medium: | photographs, text, graphics, reproductions |
| Collaborations: | Reminders Photography Stronghold |
| Further information: | |
| This work, '...there is no end' is two books, one a codex and the other a concertina bound together back to back. Beth Jackson's book is subtitled, 'at the end of'. Louis Lim's concertina book is subtitled, 'An Opened Letter'.
The following snippets are extracts from an interview given by the artists with Louise Martin-Chew at Onespace Gallery in Highgate Hill, Brisbane, Queensland on 17 May 2019. "The project is...conversation between Beth and me. The book is called '...there is no end'. It's a little bit of a complicated narrative that we navigate through. The first part of the story was of a close relation of mine who had been imprisoned for four years and three months. I made [a] photographic work after his release and I shared the work with Beth." "Louis had the opportunity to attend a book making workshop in Japan. He had the photographic series and he said, I want to make the series into a book and I want more content for this book. He thought that I could contribute text. He knew I had recently had a bereavement through the loss of my partner. He thought there might be a parallel between our journeys of grief or experience of grief... I chose to create a poem." "It's a powerful work. I responded by creating images of skies...Her partner [was] in hospital [for] 11 days... We selected 11 [images of skies] that are representative of 11 days that had gone by." "When he passed away I was aware that he had made little watercolours, but I had no idea of the extent of these watercolours. There were hundreds...he'd made on journeys made on his boat. Most of them are just paintings of seas and skies. We decided to reproduce some of them as images in the book as well." "The paper [which the poem is printed on] is very delicate, it is a very thin paper, 52 gsm, which means you have to be quite gentle whien you flip through the pages and then you read the words that are quite stark but then there's the touch of the paper itself. This is two sided paper where one side is smooth, the other side is rough. The thinking here was that grief is sometimes sweet and it's also sometimes rough." "My original series of photographs, it's been made into a concertina book. A concertina book read from right to left – just to hold onto Asian reading patterns. And these mirror pages hold a portrait underneath that you can just see. Firstly you are looking at yourself and then slowly you realise there is someone else underneath. There's only two of these pages to help you identify what the person belonging to these stories could look like. Though you can never really tell. And so this is the idea of faded memory." |
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| Designer, concept: | Louis Lim () |
| Photographer: | Louis Lim () |
| Poet: | Beth Jackson () |
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