This pocket photobook is part of a larger project that explores the role of repetition in the formation and deconstruction of bias. Repetition in this context will be examined from different angles: A frequently taken route, the spreading of news, beliefs and opinions, an obsessive thought.

Points of departure: Repetition and nominalism. Repetition and mechanization. Repetition as variation. Repetition as progress. The narrative value of repetition and its role in performativity.

The power and the many faces of repetition in connection to the formation of opinion and bias will be explored through different media. This book is the first manifestation, the first topic addressed: Seeking and finding answers through repetition, and the attraction of the familiarity repetition brings.

The first edition of this book is printed in limited numbered and signed copies. Each copy is unique and fully handmade.

The pictures below show the first one of these copies: 48 pages, grayscale, 11x12 (cm), archival paper 100gr (Conqueror, oyster) on archival paper 240gr, (Dali, chamois), chain stitch:

The flip book video shows a color version of the book (physical copy in the making). 

Repetition


 Locked in a series of movements

 in a frame made of gestures

 circling words

 and behavioral loops

 that I had to repeat
        (until I broke through)

 I learned that progress is a spiral

 and that there is no such thing

 as repetition.

 Although I memorize the steps

 I follow the sequence

 I copy and paste

 the half-empty days

 and their dummies for reference:

 A sunset, a beach, a building.

 The pattern is similar but

 there is no identical point in time

 and each repetition brings me closer

 to a still escaping answer.

 But
      even after I quench my question

 I keep going back

 to the comfort of the familiar

 because after all

 I am just a creature of habit.

You can read more about the poetry issues project here.