
Youth Without Age and Life Without Death
- Publisher
- Guest Editions
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Hardcover in golden brown cloth
Image inlaid into cover, foil embossed title
210 x 280mm
112-page silk image section
60 colour plates
8-page gloss polaroid section
12 polaroid plates
8-page translucent section with pencil drawings
8-page notes section of artist diaries and notes
The inaugural photobook marks the first chapter of a long-running project in which the artist uses large format photographs, polaroids, drawings and personal notes to grasp at the intangible and explore a connection with time itself. The project is a response to a need to escape, adventure and roam in reaction to an internal pressure that time is moving too fast, a shared experience that hours, days and weeks pass and cannot be recalled, life continuing as time slips away. The adventure began in Romania, where a strong sense of timelessness, tradition and untouched scenery mirrored a desire to stop time, leading to a local story that perfectly echoes these many questions: a photographic exploration of the fabric of time, drawing directly on famous mythology to offer a view on the fragility of existence. Alternating between reality and fantasy, the photographs respond to a feeling of separation from the modern world, playing with the notion of fiction and the present moment, all the signs of temporality bearing on objects charged with tensions of permanence and impermanence.