This artist book brings together writing, photographs, and place “samples” (in the form of pebbles, sand, and salt) accumulated during the journey along the northern Adriatic coast with the Stories from the Edge project. The writing is a reflection of the musings and experiences collected in these travels.
The multiple images superimposed on the postcards do not necessarily reflect the places named on the card. Historically, the territory around the Gulf of Trieste has constantly shifted hands and the peoples have moved across borders and non-borders for centuries, exchanging cultures, food, and language. This intertwining of identities is mirrored in the images and text of the postcards.
What does each place actually mean—how does it get recorded in each individual’s memory? As people move and shift across tangible and intangible borders, what memories, impressions, and souvenirs do they take with them? What defines the authenticity of “place”?
Book board, cardstock, inkjet prints, postage stamps, glass vials, pebbles, sand, salt
size of postcards: 5.75 x 4.25 in.
size of box: 6.5 x 7.75 x 1 in.
