“This is not a fairytale.
This is not a story.
No way.
It’s a pillar of salt,
a photographic device
that no one can predict.
It awakens gods in humans
gods from another time.
Financially, it’s worth nothing.
It is not History
yet it lives within the human mind.
Isn’t that History?
What we didn’t experience
like the Vietnam war
is history
And the flow of thoughts
the creation
is not more vivid
that what we saw or heard
in a documentary.
Let’s start here.
Men with feminine faces.”
This work is the outcome of a correspondence between a writer Odysseas Simos and the painter Charlotte Niewenhuys. Thinking of the perhaps outdated format of postal correspondences, we proposed an edition that is postcard sized. We suggested that the content, that in a first instance would dialogue within one book object, would be separated again in two different volumes, this way the reader is invited to redo the correspondence between text and image works again. The image works can also be detached and used as actual postcards.
