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'Cities Look Like Teeth'
2024 'Cities Look Like Teeth' is an artist’s book chronicling a decade of travels across Europe incorporating laser-cut photography and letterpress-printed text responses. From Copenhagen to Milan, from Lyon to Novi Sad, I toured with bands as musician, tour manager, driver, merch seller; the book is thus an interrogation of location, memory and chronology. Each city is represented by a photograph taken during a visit and a poetic text-fragment written during or afterwards. Twenty cities are included in the book, but I visited many more - a full list is below. Edition: 30 Size: 25cm x 22.5cm (closed) Pages: 60 Stock: 160gsm South Bank Smooth Typefaces: Consort Bold and Hogarth Sewn book: 10mm spine, 5-hole pamphlet stitch, covered & printed 2mm boards Price: £150 + shipping |
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Launch events:
September 21st, 4pm: York Centre for Print November 29th, evening: Leicester Print Workshop These events will include a talk about the book, slideshow, Q&A and an opportunity to view the book itself. Please contact me if you'd like to host an event. Technical notes: - The images are rastered directly into the paper by the laser-cutter. That means each sheet is put into the laser-cutter and the image is burnt into the paper. It's a direct method, rather than laser-cutting another element from which the final image is then reproduced. My thanks to Helen Wood at Bradford School of Art for her technical support. - The texts were printed letterpress from hand-set founder's type using a Vandercook 4, also at Bradford School of Art. - My thanks to Roger Grech for his help in finalising the hardback binding. Shipping notes: - Book will ship within 5 days, assuming I'm not travelling. - Buyers are responsible for any local customs or import charges. - If you'd prefer to arrange to collect at a fair, then please get in touch first or put a note in the order comments. I'll happily refund the postage. - Contact me for multiple orders and/or if you'd prefer to pay by bank transfer. Locations visited (2008-2019) - English spellings
A Aalborg (DK; 2012) Aarhus (DK; 2012) Amsterdam (NL; 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) Antwerp (BE; 2011) Arnhem (NL; 2015) Arras (FR; 2012, 2018) B Berlin (DE; 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) Bochum (DE; 2017, 2018, 2019) Breda (NL; 2011, 2017) Brezno (SK; 2017) Brussels (BE; 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018) C Carpi (IT; 2016) Celle (DE; 2018) Chemitz (DE; 2017) Cologne (DE; 2011, 2014, 2019) Copenhagen (DK; 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016) D Darmstadt (DE; 2014) Diano d'Alba (IT; 2008) Dresden (DE; 2017) E Eeklo (BE; 2018) Emmen (NL; 2017) Epinal (FR; 2012) F Freiburg (DE; 2016) G Gap (FR; 2017) Gent (BE; 2012, 2017, 2018) Groningen (NL; 2013) H Hamburg (DE; 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016) Heilbronn (DE; 2016) Hradec Kralove (CZ; 2017) J Jihlava (CZ; 2015) K Kaiserslautern (DE; 2017) Karlsruhe (DE; 2016, 2017) Kassel (DE; 2018) L Leipzig (DE; 2017, 2018) Ljubljana (SI; 2017) Lyon (FR; 2017) M Metz (FR; 2015, 2016) Milan (IT; 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017) Miskolc (DE; 2017) Montpelier (FR; 2017) Münich (DE; 2014) N Novi Sad (RS; 2017) O Offenbach (DE; 2017, 2018) Oslo (NO; 2014) P Paris (FR; 2011, 2012, 2014) Pilsen (CZ; 2015) Poznan (PL; 2018) Prague (CZ; 2017, 2018) R Rennes (FR; 2015) Roubaix (FR; 2012) Rouen (FR; 2012) S Stockholm (SE; 2014) Strasbourg (FR; 2017) T The Hague (NL; 2011) Tübingen (DE; 2018) V Vienna (AT; 2017) Villafranca di Verona (IT; 2008) W Weikersheim (DE; 2018) Weissenhauser Strand (DE; 2011) Z Zagreb (HR; 2017) Zürich (CH; 2014, 2016) Selected texts - taken from large-format print series
+++++ From Lübeck to Copenhagen houses lean - water surrounds - flatlands north driving back onto the island at 2am, snow blowing wild around the van across Fehmarn - towards Rødby - turbines spin deer leap across the road right in front of us, lit by headlights, they are weightless and free +++++ From Chemnitz to Prague Marx looms - cathedrals shimmer - babies climb turning off the D8, we head north and cross the peacefully-winding river around Melnik ex-border posts - chimneys spew - trams rattle then, two giant sandtsone heads rise up, mouths agape, swallowing us into their sanctum +++++ From Miskolc to Vienna steam rises - cranes swing - tracks crest around the borderpost, abandoned farms, dead machines, hillsides gouged by old workings Brezno drinks - stone floors - Korb noise refuelling near Bratislava, a man yanks the door open and yells, "honey, honey, honey!" |
Work-in-progress images
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