Paul Morrison - Black Medick - Imschoot 2004

Publisher Imschoot uitgevers describes Paul Morrison’s Black Medick as “A bible of natural phenomena and botanical inspiration.” Morrison’s book is bound in leatherette with pages colored about the edges; as is the case with a few of Imschoot’s editions, Black Medic directly mimics the physical form of a Bible – bookmark and all. However, this is a wordless book that extols the endless beauty and variety of something as simple as a common garden weed. Black Medick confronts its subject not at its botanical root, but at its representational root: the photographic pixel. The pixel thus becomes a tense limit of expression, communication, and understanding – and a back lot gone to seed or a reedy shoreline are the scenes of the miracles it depicts.

96p - no text - 21x16cm - faux leather hardcover - perfect condition