Better not move
The book ‘Better Not Move’ by visual artist Petra Noordkamp is based on a journey through patterns of nature and architecture. The idea was to create a tranquil and poetic book where you can also feel the intensity of Noordkamp’s grief of the loss of her loved one.
The book is constructed with different narratives, each on a different type of paper. We chose for bulky paper to make the object literally soft and lightweight and we worked with semi-transparent ‘sheets’ for the memories of her loved one that function as flashbacks in the book like little snippets. Alongside these objects there are text excerpts about love, grief, beauty and space from film screenplays of the 1960s and 1970s that are coming from pocketbooks she and her partner had collected. These objects and excerpts are in a dialogue with each other. And in the middle of the book you find images of the house where Petra stayed during her art residency, printed on off-white paper.The images are positioned in the spine so it feels claustrophobic and it interrupts the sequences. Photographic zooms of stones are printed on black paper with metallic green to give the book more contrast and to focus on the texture and surface of nature.
Year | 2022 |
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Client | Petra Noordkamp |
Location | Tokyo |
Publisher | Architectura & Natura |
Printer | robstolk |