Into The Stretching Target Again

In 2005 (my last year as part of tomato) I made a book, my second after Tycho’s Nova (2001). Inspired by the Ladybird books of my childhood, Scandinavian folklore, horror movies and concrete poetry, I wrote a simple little fairy story. I took colour photography of landscapes around my then mother- and father-in-laws house in Smaland, Sweden, on midsummer’s day until sunset. Later that summer, I took a trip to Gotland and visited Narsholmen, the location where Tarkovsky’s last film, The Sacrifice, was shot. I took black and white pictures here. All the images were shot on a Lomo camera. While I was on the Gotland trip I kept a notebook, describing landscapes and people and atmospheres. I then counted every seventh word of the text and used this approach to make a concrete poem, which I joined with the fairy tale, interweaving it to replace the story as the book unfolds.