I received the book ‘Magic Power Presence’ by Iris Books today in the post. It includes a video still taken from my video ‘Path’ and a short description.
In their foreword Iris (an artists’ book collective based in Dumfries) writes:
Iris originally came together to celebrate the ‘presence’ of books. We don’t see books as ‘just’ words… we are drawn to the tactile, visual qualities of books, before or after you allow the words to absorb you. We are also intrigued by the magic of them. You can pick up and hold a book in your hand, open it and there, wherever you are, it opens out a world to you.
With more and more talk about digitising books it’s refreshing to be involved with a group of contemporary artists promoting the book as an object made from paper rather than a soulless e-reader.
The combination of creative text and image in Magic Power Presence is a stimulating visual experience comprising photos, video stills, objets trouves, prints, assemblages and paintings.
A major exhibition in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and the College of Art is in the pipeline. I don’t yet know whether or not I’ll be able to show the video ‘Path’, or just the still, either way it’s far removed from me scanning that rocky track behind my house last year using a 150 metre extension cable and a lap-top that continuously over heated in the Mediterranean sun.
