Her morning of nice thoughts (UNIQUE BOOK)

Robin Maddock
Her morning of nice thoughts (UNIQUE BOOK)

Photographs: Robin Maddock

Publisher: Selfpublished

69 pages

Year: 2025

Price: 5500 €

Comments: Hardcover, 28x21 cm, largest, black scrap book, riso-graph collage. Approximately 500 copies litho printed at A3 . Different sequencing with additional images/ pages and texts. Mixed medias: scissoring, collage, text, painting Including a lot of original prints. UNIQUE COPY.

Honestly …this book is a constructed mess as life is, could it be other wise ?

This book as memory, not linear either. The more personal the material, I’m at the same time entering a flow of images with the rest of the world. At this time, on paper ..seems counter intuitive, perhaps that’s a motivation? more of then, more of them, of me ..

I have a rule to never go back, in reality that is of course..broken , followed by disappointment. But maybe to rewind only in pictures is the way forward for me ..the camera recording in order that we might forget..

If I sense photography is dying : my excitement still lies in visiting the cemetery.. .. there are some alive flowers of new unseen pictures amongst my graveyard of found images..

‘we bravely read the stones ‘ (I always wondered :why bravely Morrissey? ) .. here I have found pleasure to play amongst the ruins and to inscribe them with my name here and there , now as then ..no one there can say I didn’t try ..I mute all but my own voice , in the graveyard all is finally quiet, maybe ..