Fermata

A written journal of long conversations, with one word per issue. Issue I is Restraint.

Fermata

Fermata

Issue I / Restraint

Conversation 04

I used to think a cut was something you lose.

Issues

FERMATA

Issue I

Restraint

Restraint

Four conversations and one poem.

FERMATA

Issue II

Return

Return

Cover by a commissioned artist

FERMATA

Issue III

Inheritance

Inheritance

Four conversations and one poem.

  • FERMATA

    Issue I

    Restraint

    Four conversations and one poem.

  • FERMATA

    Issue II

    Return

    Cover by a commissioned artist

  • FERMATA

    Issue III

    Inheritance

    Four conversations and one poem.

Pictures

Nobody in this journal looks into the camera.

Nobody in this journal looks into the camera.

Rooms after the conversation, windows, a chair left out, a sheet of contacts with one frame circled. Where a person appears they are turned away, at work, or only a shadow. Scroll sideways.

The Room After, 5:47 pm

Arches, after the last visitor

Gallery, one lamp

Window

Cyanotype, drying

Courtyard, one window lit

Contact sheet, one frame circled

Bookshop, rain

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