The written unit, signs, grave markers and the left behind object - LIMITED

Hardback book, kettle stitched, 109 pages, 21.9 x 15.8 x 2.3cm
2024

'The written unit, signs, gravemarkers and the left behind object' is a colour inkjet printed hardback book comprising of poetry and photography designed, bound and written by Lily Petch.

'To pay close attention to the way in which we treat writing as a tool to preserve presence beyond the boundaries of the body. A tribute to the act of recording traces of ancestry by sign'. Image references in this book include Akkadian lamentation tablets and pictographic trade records, fragments of Linear B, Medieval monumental brasses and more personal family oriented artefacts from the artist.

Any secondary sourced photographs, scanned linguistic/archaeological texts or artefacts documented are listed in a short bibliography at the end of the book.