Respond - a collaboration with Gabrielle Higgins)

This collaborative project includes a pairing Korean sijo poems written by Gabrielle Higgins with and in response to my photographs.

Together we created an A5 book and a set of 5 concertina books (A6) each hand-bound by Gabby. The overall theme was RESPOND.

RESPOND is the title of the book and one of the Concertina books. The other concertina books are titled Repose, Release, Retrospect and Return. The A5 book has 15 photographs paired with 15 Sijo poems. The Concertina books each have 3 photographs and 3 sijo poems. 

As a final piece, we created one wall artwork, which is an original silver gelatin photograph ('Into the Mystic') with its related sijo mounted into the frame with the artwork. The photograph is Edition 2 of the already established edition for that artwork.

Note for the collaboration, I gave Gabby no title or context for any of the photographs and so her poem is a pure response to the image.