It Could Be
PODRIA SER (IT COULD BE ) Sonda Editores 2002, edition 500, soft cover, steel wire-o bound, 14.8 x 21cm, 176pp. 42 ill. In colour, bilingual text English/Spanish, price £25.00 + postage/packing.
This book project was carried out whilst living in Barcelona, Spain.
Many trajectories were taken in the city metro system to terminus points, as a way of abstracting the urban geography, and the return journeys were made as serpentine meanderings. The marks and traces of human activity were encountered photographically in a process where knowledge appeared to vaporise instead of condense. The text>image relationship experiments
with notions of narrative art.
The images were all taken with a mid-range compact camera, with minimal manual overrides, and the films processed in a standard high street store. The resulting 10 x 15cm prints were scanned, in preference to the negatives, prior to the printing of the book. In this way the qualitative result was constrained within the limitations or variations of an industrial ‘sub’-standard. The typography was understated, in order to de-sign ornamental tendencies, in favour of the word-image interaction itself.
‘The map is not the terrain’ (Abraham Maslow, from The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, 1971)
This book project was carried out whilst living in Barcelona, Spain.
Many trajectories were taken in the city metro system to terminus points, as a way of abstracting the urban geography, and the return journeys were made as serpentine meanderings. The marks and traces of human activity were encountered photographically in a process where knowledge appeared to vaporise instead of condense. The text>image relationship experiments
with notions of narrative art.
The images were all taken with a mid-range compact camera, with minimal manual overrides, and the films processed in a standard high street store. The resulting 10 x 15cm prints were scanned, in preference to the negatives, prior to the printing of the book. In this way the qualitative result was constrained within the limitations or variations of an industrial ‘sub’-standard. The typography was understated, in order to de-sign ornamental tendencies, in favour of the word-image interaction itself.
‘The map is not the terrain’ (Abraham Maslow, from The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, 1971)