The Anatomy of Belief

Belief is an intangible force that can be held as a beacon in the dark, or abandoned in the light of reason.

 

Contemplative object that employs the formal and physical structures of the book as a conceptual and meditative space. Part of an ongoing exploration concerning ‘emptiness’ as the source of all potential, the unwritten page as a space of totality: all that has passed and all that is to come.

Japanese kozo paper, wax, coptic sewn on transparent filament with letterpress printed cover L32.5cm W20cm D3.5cm closed (D28cm open)

Wraparound (Hako Chitsu) box: greyboard covered with white bookcloth, lined with kozo paper with a single bone clasp closure

L36cm W24cm D5.5cm

Transparent stand in two parts.

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"In Allen's case, the note her works strike comes from their sheer fundamental materiality... the Anatomy of Belief leads me towards the ironic interpretation. Here the pages are blank.

Even without text or image, though, the impressionable wax of which the sheets are made offers all the explication needed for an anatomy of belief.

Robert Bolick (BooksOnBooks)

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