THE GRAY LINE (ARTIST'S EDITION OF 11)

Laura Rodari
THE GRAY LINE (ARTIST'S EDITION OF 11)

Photographs: Laura Rodari

Publisher: self published

111 pages

Year: 2019

Comments: Handmade textured hard cover with leather spine. 35x17 cm. Edition of 11 where each book is unique, hand binding and different in editing and prints, which they are glued on Favini paper. Each one includes 50 darkroom fiber prints , a few offset prints and some of the original darkroom prints of the images published in the book THE GRAY LINE published by AkinaBooks in 2019.

THE GRAY LINE is Laura Rodari’s first book, ‘the work who came out of visceral feelings and melancholy’, as she would tell you. Laura whispers, sometimes. She does it to time, to thoughts, to the universe and to its inhabitants. The response is mutual, bodily gut-deep mutual. Landscapes bend under her eyes, faces crumble, time evolves in the opposite direction and its arrow moves continuously as the most unrest being. THE GRAY LINE is this place in between past present and future, barely visible, an acknowledgment of absolute solitude. Both the origin and the end, along with light, beauty, joy and death. Nowhere life is more viscerally needed.

the womb is frail, the distance ephemeral, the consumption of a latent promise, the fog, the sentimental no, the agreement of death, the key to the senses

the lack of language, hers, after her.

the womb is frail when empty, the presence ethereal, time produces quakes on the shroud of eternity, the thickness, the density, nearly here never again

men and women walking, the darkness they bear, beating the glimpsed years ahead until they are, you Mother, the dim and the faint, flowers in your garden smell, they died and they bloomed again, they die and they bloom always.