Fishy: Front cover. Published October 2024, Ambeck Design. |
Inspired by the UK Post Office scandal (another digital success!) "Fishy" is about small fish being eaten by bigger fish for all to eventually get swallowed up by the big fat cat of the world.
Small fish being eaten by the bigger fish. |
The big fat cat. |
The cog-like fish are a reference to us all being cogs in the big scheme of existence – also used in earlier work ('Cogs – a Book in the Machine', 2006).
Shoals of cog-fish following the current. |
Some have already given up. Hand-stitched fish-bones. |
'Fishy' can be seen as a companion piece to 'AI – Authentic Inanity' (June 2024), which is also an A6 origami book format – unfolding to A4.
The big fish which has swallowed all the little fish. |
Stock: 120gsm Fabriano Toned paper – coloured: 'Sea'.
Cover size: A6 (7.5 x 10.5 cm)
Language: English/fish
Edition 35, individually numbered on typewriter and in a glassine envelope.
Published October 2024.
'Fishy' at the launch October 25th, 2024 at the Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London. |