This is a small side project I’ve been working on. The idea came to me one Saturday morning when I was contemplating my stationery (yes, I do this often), and since it refused to leave, I went and found a Moleskine to put it in.
The thought was to create a small piece of dramatic scenography contained within a book. The performance consists of opening the book when instigated by a four-line verse which tells the story of a man who takes a walk amongst it pages.
This is the verse followed by images from his journey:
He walked in, to the trees
over the undulating crease
of a landscape lit with time
fading on a sinking golden line
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Quite interesting to see….I liked it.
Nice! How about doing a continuation of what happens inside the scene. Does the man follow a distant speck at the horizon? A rainbow he can never reach perhaps?