POSTCARDS FROM MENTAL STATES
Our collaborative project, Postcards From Mental States started by exchanging digital archives of travelling through America at times when we had both felt overwhelmed; a simple realisation that we tend to document difficult times in our lives. We create archives of ourselves to revise at a time when we are less overwhelmed. We know we are very easy to very easily overwhelmed. If whelm originally meant to overturn, then a vessel is implied here. To overwhelm is to over-repeat turn a vessel. Turning over an engine gets a motorboat started, and yet overturning a boat pauses or stops the boat in the water. Exchanging our personal archives felt like turning over an hourglass. The passage of sand back and forth and back and forth is a soothing and subtle reference to death. The pattern of sand grains runs on the hourglass . . .
Lewis & Hawkins
Some early work was published as a full colour, landscape print edition under the name of Holding Patterns (Beir Bua Press, 2021).
Our collaborative project, Postcards From Mental States started by exchanging digital archives of travelling through America at times when we had both felt overwhelmed; a simple realisation that we tend to document difficult times in our lives. We create archives of ourselves to revise at a time when we are less overwhelmed. We know we are very easy to very easily overwhelmed. If whelm originally meant to overturn, then a vessel is implied here. To overwhelm is to over-repeat turn a vessel. Turning over an engine gets a motorboat started, and yet overturning a boat pauses or stops the boat in the water. Exchanging our personal archives felt like turning over an hourglass. The passage of sand back and forth and back and forth is a soothing and subtle reference to death. The pattern of sand grains runs on the hourglass . . .
Lewis & Hawkins
Some early work was published as a full colour, landscape print edition under the name of Holding Patterns (Beir Bua Press, 2021).
Postcards From Mental States (Hesterglock Press)
Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins
64 page photo book
landscape 229 x 178 mm
premium color paperback
Mar 31 2023
£20 + p&p
more information
Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins
64 page photo book
landscape 229 x 178 mm
premium color paperback
Mar 31 2023
£20 + p&p
more information
Jan 29: Poem Brut at Hundred Years Gallery, London E2, 3.30pm, free Entry w/Laura Davis, Felix McNamara, Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins, Susie Campbell, Simon Tyrrell, Bob T Bright, SJ Fowler, Yoshiki Ukai and Mark Rutter alongside the launch of “Biros II” by Patrick Cosgrove from Hesterglock Press
"A marvelous Vispo book"
Eileen Tabios
"A marvelous Vispo book"
Eileen Tabios