In February 2008 I visited Berlin for the first time. As part of my current research interest in artists books I had planned to make a primarily visual book in response to some aspect of the city as I experienced it. The Berlin holocaust memorial struck me both visually and emotionally. The physical and numerical scale of the repeated forms was overwhelming as an entire city block serves as an emotive reminder and warning of the inhumanity and echoing sadness of mans atrocities. I wanted to construct a book object which would allow the viewer a sense of the visual complexity of the memorial and its scale, whilst also suggesting something of the psychological effect of this environment. 

In the book the viewer can choose to see as much, or as little, as they like of the image, just as it is impossible to make sense of the whole memorial whilst you are within in its looming, seemingly endless masses and shifting apertures. 

Memorial: photo-polymer etching on 280gms Somerset Velvet Newsprint, Size:               H18.5 x W18.5 X L120 cm (fully extended), Ed.10, 2008.  Bought by the Tate Library Artists' Books Collection.

Floorboard Wormery: Inkjet print – taken from relief print – on card, H12 cm x W20 cm (120 cm fully extended), Ed.6, 2007