Messages
Zen, Vedas and the World of Quantum Physics
Kehrer Verlag, 30,5 x 31 CM, 114 Pages, 44 Black and White large format Photographs
“We receive Messages in different ways. They are simply signs that are found in everyday life, often ignored but always present; in dreams, in nature, or in different belief systems. Some of these Messages are found in faraway places, others are within our lives. I did not go out of my way to find these Messages, they were there waiting for me and are as present today as when I found them.” Julia Calfee
(from Messages, page 3)
Messages consists of three simultaneous presentations: visual with forty-four black and white photographs; emotional through nine written messages which are philosophical and poetical interpretations of human condition in different parts of the world; as well as audio in the form of a 12 inch vinyl record which consists of twenty different recordings from six different countries over a 18 year time span.
Messages
Vinyl Record
12” Vinyl Record, 180g, 45 RPM, Stereo
The recordings on the vinyl record are “nomadic sound-bites”, spontaneous and unpredictable.
The vinyl record is a symphony composed, sequenced and edited by the artist, recorded in different places around the world, 1999 to 2016, and is included with the book as part of the same project.
The recordings have not been altered in any manner, either by synthesizers or any other external technique.
Messages
Video
Always looking for ways to portray this project with as many dimensions as possible, I included a short film titled Finding Messages. It shows the atmosphere in which I worked from the original footage, done in different times and different places.
Messages
Kehrer Verlag, 2018
Contributions by: Tarcisius Schelbert
Designed by Pentagram Berlin: Justus Oehler
ISBN 978-3-86828-762-2
30,5 x 31 CM, 114 Pages, 44 Black and White large format Photographs
12” Vinyl Record, 180g, 45 RPM, Stereo
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