“Overall this book was unlike anything I had ever interacted with before. It is a collaboration that felt so evenly weighted between both artists and tied together two different people’s lives so tightly through the use of powerful words and the structure of the book itself. I would recommend anyone who is interested in the use of vernacular materials within art go and purchase this book, and even those who are not intrigued by this should engage with this masterful work. It holds the attention of the viewer through its calculated placement of materials throughout and keeps the audience excited.”
Float magazine - full review here
Last year Saskia and Amanda simultaneously found a box “in the attic”. Saskia encountered a box filled with postcards, letters, slides and pictures from her dad Jan who died in 2017. Amanda found a box filled with slides, logbooks and snapshots of unfamiliar faces from her dad Brian who died in 1994 when she was only 14 years old. Saskia had her father around for a long time, Amanda one the other hand for a short time. Still both knew so little about the time before they were born. What was he like? What did he do? We both remember fragments of stories and with all that material we started to make A story. THE story remains unknown.
The publication consists of two untold stories and thus two books that can be read simultaneously. The stories are very different yet sometimes look strangely the same.
year 2018
size 150 x 200 mm
pages 104
limited printrun 150
technique Fujifilm Jetpress
binding saddle stich