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Editorial RM 2025
- Softcover, 1st edition, 88p
- New
4 Sides of The Table was made from 2022-24. In the spring of 2017, I was with my mother in an empty room. The light of the sun was shining through the windows. Her best friend June was at her bedside reading poetry aloud. My mother died a few hours later. Since I could no longer take pictures of my mother, it seemed natural to me to photograph June. I photographed her hands, her legs, from the back, from the front, partial views etc. feeling I could convince myself she was my mother more easily by photographing her in parts rather than in showing her whole figure.
During the months that I was visiting June, her daughter unexpectedly passed away. I thought after that she might not want to continue our time together taking pictures, but she did. The camera gave us the freedom we needed to imagine we belonged to each other.
4 Sides of The Table Is about the time it takes to eat a loaf of bread, for light to pass through a room, and or for someone to die and how we can recreate or extend that time. I wanted a way of holding on to what has passed and what’s hard to keep, even if only in an empty hand.
Note that this delicate book has quite fragile corners.
Temporarily sold out - due back in stock soon.
