Gossamer
Rebecca Cairns
Self-Published
English
Softcover
Edition of 50
54 pages
210 x 210 mm
2022
ISBN 9783945111765
Gossamer is the third release in a trilogy of self-published books, following Belgrade (2013) and Boreal (2019). Each of these books serves as a document of a five-year period of time. Like these former publications, Gossamer is diaristic in nature. The book consists of images taken during the earlier days of the pandemic; across four cities in two different countries. The word gossamer denotes softness and impermanence: the fragility of a silken web or fabric which is easily damaged and can never fully form lasting roots. From another perspective, the word suggests a continuous renewal, or a reparation. This book is, perhaps, a collection of images about love. Gossamer includes twenty-three photographs taken with various forms of film, including reproductions of original darkroom prints.
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About the Artist
Rebecca Cairns is a practicing visual artist, analogue photographer & researcher from Tkaronto/Toronto, currently living and working in Dublin, Ireland. She studied photography preservation and collections management, and work professionally as an image preservation specialist & archivist, with a special research interest in natural history & science collections.
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