Description

Organic Abstraction is intended for use in intimate settings – living rooms, hospital rooms, contemplative spaces. An art object that can be enjoyed by diverse audiences, it is first and foremost a gift for the people we care about, and especially those confined indoors – by weather, illness, or conflict…

Designed during the early pandemic lockdowns of 2020, Organic Abstraction acts as a reminder of wondrous yet easily overlooked lifeworlds found in mundane surroundings; under our feet, around the corner, in the liminal spaces on the periphery of perception. Beings and landscapes that exist on scales other than human.

The photographs were taken over two decades by three people practicing the ‘craft of noticing’ in their immediate surroundings. Re-enchanting the present by being attentive to animate matter that permeates all life – hinting at Hildegard von Bingen’s viriditas, or Japanese kami.

The fascicle blurs boundaries between individual authors, between figurative & abstract, realism & impressionism, micro & macro scales. Ambiguity in this collection is a deliberate choice. Each fascicle contains a unique selection of several hand-cut visual cahiers in a custom designed slip case.

• Artists: Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney, Maja Kuzmanović
• Designed by FoAM as part of the Anarchive
• Published by Liminous Editions in 2023

The selection of cahiers is collated by the artists, printed on demand and made to order. Please allow some time for production.