Handmade concertina book ‘Colour bleeds and light folds, edition #1 (2–7)’ unfolds and exposes to view unexpected and intersecting layers of colour and form.
Leafing through the photofolds offers varying combinations made possible by the nature of the concertina format. Using the book as an armature, photographic collages are collated from darkroom test strips, held in place by slicing and weaving into the pages of the book. This is a resolution that negotiates the conventions of the photobook while maintaining a connection between the darkroom and the page without compromising the sensation of tactility.
‘Haptic experience comes to the fore as the viewer/ reader interacts with [this] book,’ writes Sue Cramer within her essay Colour bleeds and light folds, ‘either choosing to look at one page at a time, or to open the pages out to reveal a rhythmic sequence’.