Narrative text
Cyanotype concertina book, responding to a narrative text from The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. The images were created using a found image of a woman’s face, the text was added in photoshop, the image and text were printed out. The image was then dragged along the scanner to create a distortion on the text.
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house – the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture – must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for.
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
The back of the book was printed using a gel plate.
