Raymond Meeks: A Geography of Abandonment (numbered & signed - available for preorder))

The place we call home hides very deep roots: they insinuate themselves into the earth and deform its foundations, the foundation on which to walk. Roots to be desperately sought in the earth, to be uprooted or re-compacted as clods. Roots full of symbols, dreams and memories define Raymond Meeks' language of abandonment.

 

I try to imagine what it means to give your entire life and self to people who then leave.

 

She seems to be expecting something, some form she

could take possession of. A borrowed form, perhaps, one that could express the real

 pain inside. An absolute breaking and repurposing of truth.

A place where truth could be gotten at, but also where

truth could be defended.

 

A burning experience of molding herself.

A sudden glimpse of her own being

 

Raymond Meeks

 

Current status: copies will be available from early December.

 

Title: A Geography of Abandonment 
Publisher: Origini Edizioni, 2022
Author: Text by Raymond Meeks
Photographer: Raymond Meeks (photos on leporello inside by Adrianna Ault)
Graphic Design: Raymond Meeks
Format: Handmade filo-refe binding, plus handmade leporello Risograph printed inside the book
Size: 18 x 26 cm, 105 pages
Edition: 250 copies numbered and signed