Publisher Note
The book narrates the soliloquy of a researcher in residence in a huge rural house in Portugal who tries to decipher the non-human world during some encounters with the "others", the only "residents" of the place. Through stories extracted from a field diary and fragments of records, between the scientific, the speculative and the poetic, the book reconstructs the thread of Paula's artistic process: she ventures into an impossible classification and, finally, she will end up confronting her own limit.
Parallel to the growth time of a plant, there are encounters and misunderstandings with more than a dozen species (ants, bats, spiders, snakes, mint plants, crickets...). These discoveries end with a final story, called "Pareidolia", where anthropomorphic roots reveal the bias of the human gaze.
| Publisher | self-published |
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| Release Place | Barcelona, Spain, Spain |
| Release Date | June 2022 |
| Credits |
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| Printrun | 10 |
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| Themes | Non-human, Disanthropocentry, Ecology, Empathy, |
| Methods | Drawing, Graphics, Photography, Writing |
| Language | Spanish |
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| Binding | Metallic spiral binding |
| Dimensions | 9.0 × 14.0 cm |
| Interior | |
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| Pages | 46, sheets |
| Content | 8 handmade envelopes with field record cards about non--humans residents |
| Material | Freelife Vellum, Colorplan rust (envelopes) |
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| Material | archival cardboard |
