An artist’s book, published UK, 2025. Signed edition of 200.
Price £20. Available LRBBookshop, Lala Books, Beaconsfield in London.
The fact of a shared underlying limestone formation between Portland and the Dalmatian coast was of interest. A writing process characterised by interruptions. The contours of an internal anxiety which is tidal, intermittent and intense. The geography is Split’s Marjan Park-Forest, a promontory of the spectacular Karst landscape. The writing is visual, fragmentary and chopped up. Lines of text are like layers in the strata of sedimentary rock, sentences as conglomerates of words, letters are particles. Paragraphs are treated like fossils, literally sandwiched into the text of a C19th book about Geology.
Contents:
Limestone WALKING
INTERRUPTIONS form this work, time’s flow severed repeatedly.
Limestone FINDING – detours / Obilazak.
FILMING – focus, blur, long sight / short sight, degeneration of vision.
limestone OOLITIC – GLASS – as corporate capitalism takes hold through grabbing so rudely the private parts of the society/city/culture/place/person, and regards only improvements to the self.
Limestone THE BEACH – THE CITY – cheap flights perform an affiction not unlike the plague
Limestone PERILOUS / POROUS
Lime DISSOLVE stone
Limestone WATER – SEA
Limestone TIME – LATENESS
Limestone SPACE – GETTING LOST
Limestone SPLIT – into parts or elements – SPLIT in two, bifurcate, go in different directions, diverge, branch.
Aknowledgements
The Association KURS Marko Marulić Writers in Residence Programme, Split 2017; the British Council and Arts Council England Artists’ International Development Fund 2018 – for making the related film Plastic Water Stone.; Galerija Umjetnina; friends and colleagues in Croatia and the UK: Abigail Robinson, Neli Ruzic, Dan Oki, Sandra Sterle, Maja Vrankic, Branko Franceschi, Neil Chapman, Spike Golding, Lulu Norman, Clare Stent, Ladies Art Group, Nick Berkeley, Graham Shackleton.
Archive
2019 Notes of an Urban Pedestrian, Mecklenburgh Square Art, London, curated Clare Stent: Reading event.
Andrew Crombie Ramsay; The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, 5th & 6th editions, 1878.