Tropenwee

Photographs accompany a novella assembled entirely from sentences taken from other books. Rather than writing new sentences, the artist collected and cut out existing ones from around 83 volumes, then combined them into a continuous narrative. This use of literary montage extends from the first line to the last: borrowed passages become the material for a different story, rather than appearing as occasional quotations within newly written prose. The emphasis is on constructing a narrative from language already in circulation. The book brings together photography and a collage-based approach to fiction, using collected text as the basis of its storytelling.