THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 13TH AUGUST 2021: DAY 502

'The Constant Library',  Volume XXXII:
​"True, Thomas Joshua Cooper".

The Constant Library',  Volume XXXII: "True, Thomas Joshua Cooper".

"The idea for 'The Constant Library' follows on from a recent conversation considering which books had, and continue to have, the greatest affect my life in a variety of different ways. These are the books I can't live without and whenever possible I have a copy of with me wherever I travel in the world; my 'Constant Library."

'True' is in essence a catalogue published by Haunch Of Venison Gallery in 2009 as a companion to their exhibition  of the same name. The photographer/artist, Thomas Joshua Cooper, has spent years pursuing his ongoing concern World's Edge  Project which is self explanatory as his attempt to visit and document the ends of the Earth.  

I find these images of be immensely appealing in relation to my own research into the void, especially in regard to how such a space can be in reality be found. Whether you believe that a void is pure black or pure white, Cooper's excellent  photographs depict it in both forms.  Most of us travel the well trod paths, Cooper's photographs take us to the places we dare not to dream of.

"To cover the world, to cross it in every direction, will only ever be to know a few square metres of it, a few acres, tiny incursions into disembodied vestiges, small incidental excitements, improbable quests congealed in a mawkish haze a few details of which will remain in our memory..."

Perec G,  2008  'Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, The World' p 78.