Here’s a book that we dream about: Zara Carpenter – Relics of Healing | 2023
Self-published
PhotoBookStore
13 facsimile prints
16,5 x 12,5 cm
Unbound book within a tin
First edition of 10
SOLD OUT
All 10 copies now allocated.
English
Relics of Healing is one chapter from an ongoing series which attempts to visualise the invisible: the complex, fluctuating, individual nature of pain.
“I use different experimental techniques to attack portraits of myself, specifically targeting the parts of the body and mind causing distress. This seemingly violent act is part of the process of letting go: a cathartic release. These prints and tins have been left outside: buried, bleached, covered with growths of rust and salt crystals, some eaten by snails and other night creatures. Each title refers to a specific precious memory from the past, and many of the tins hold pocket treasure collected on walks or gathered from safe places like my garden. Exorcising trauma held within my body into the images I make has helped me to heal and given me freedom, the space to revisit and celebrate good memories that once were overwhelmed.”
Edition of 10 handmade unbound books held within found antique tins (165x125mm). Each tin contain 13 facsimile prints of artwork from the ‘Relics of Healing’ series paired with handwritten extracts of memories on tea-toned salvaged blotting paper, a pocket treasure and lavender from her garden. Each book is wrapped in tweed cloth and Japanese paper and tied with linen thread. Includes a 6″x4″ signed print on Awagami washi bamboo paper. (from editor)
