Where the dead live
To me the dead live initially in the memories of those that knew them. But later as these people also become memories they live on in the things they left behind. This could be a name on a gravestone, an anonymous photo, the ruin of a house, an artifact in a museum or junk shop.... The stories we tell about them may be no more than conjecture and imagination but while we do there is still some trace of the original person left. |
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BookArtObject Edition4
Sarah Bodman, was inspired by one of Kurt Johannessen’s Exercises (1994) ( a handbook of tasks that prompt to readers to reflect upon their world), to“write 100 stories and bury them in the forest”. Her 100 stories, collected as An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen (2010), are quietly decomposing in a forest in northern Denmark.
The titles of Sarah’s stories were, with her permission, taken as the starting point for BookArtObject Edition 4
Where the dead live and Raunzel were part of my contribution to this edition
BookArtObject Edition4
Sarah Bodman, was inspired by one of Kurt Johannessen’s Exercises (1994) ( a handbook of tasks that prompt to readers to reflect upon their world), to“write 100 stories and bury them in the forest”. Her 100 stories, collected as An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen (2010), are quietly decomposing in a forest in northern Denmark.
The titles of Sarah’s stories were, with her permission, taken as the starting point for BookArtObject Edition 4
Where the dead live and Raunzel were part of my contribution to this edition
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