Surfaces
Veins / Roots
Knee / Tree Knot
Wrist Tendon / Tree Grain
Skin / Bark
Traces
Not everything in the book is photographic. Rubbings, thread, translucent layers, and collected fragments make visible another kind of relation — one based not only on resemblance, but on contact, transfer, and touch.
If the photographs bring body and nature close together, these materials allow them to leave marks on one another.
Rubbings
The rubbings carry texture from one surface to another. Unlike the camera, which observes from a distance, a rubbing is made through direct contact. It records pressure, friction, and the act of touching a form closely enough for it to leave a trace behind.
Thread
The red thread works less like illustration than like a visible tension — something connecting, stitching, or extending one form into another. In some pages it suggests veins, roots, branches, or lines of force; in others it acts more quietly, as a reminder that relation can also be physical.
Layers
Translucent paper, fabric, and inserted fragments create moments where the image is partly hidden, partly revealed. These layers slow down the act of reading. They make the book less immediate, but more intimate — something that has to be approached, lifted, and looked through.