Articulates - free downloadable artist-book by Chris Jones
Articulates is the 5th edition of www.lighthinking.com, a 14 page artist-book downloadable free, by myself, Chris Jones. Just click slowly through the website and follow the instructions to download a jpg of each page, and use, where possible, the best printer you can to print them. There is a specific order to the pages, and a title for each, applicable when Articulates is shown in its hardcopy and gallery versions. Through lighthinking you can experience the 14 pages in any order, maybe as I do, in a weathered manila folder.
Generally, most of my work - writing, photography, or both - comes from working to see lightly, emotional tension, working to think lightly, and belief, then show this on the page. Specifically, Articulates, to me, is sorrow, formed in a migrant's experiencing a city and its language. An attempt to articulate both, in the migrant's own terms, who feels and thinks integration will not come, but believes it exists. It's from this sorrow the pictures come.
Chris Jones, Sydney, 2008
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