Editioned Artist Books

Behind the Sea of Data

A bookwork with 36 pictures and text passages

This bookwork consists of notes about an entanglement and the travels of two separate beings connected across metaphysical boundaries. This is to remember how to walk on the beach and lay in bed together. Documentary photographic evidence is edited to create an alternative history and the object of desire, John Lennon, is removed revealing only the sites and people of a time passed. Touch does not require simultaneous presence, but can happen over vast distances.

Bookwork, pages size 13 x 19 cm
Hahnemühle Tradition Skizze 100gsm
Satogami paper 80gsm
Legacy Computer Paper International 70gsm
Diamant Copy hochtransparent 90gsm
hand-bound, 4-hole coptic stitch, hard covers
24 pages printed on both sides
a bookmark 21 x 13,5 cm
Process: inkjet and laser
Edition 30
Conceived by Paula Saraste 2024
ISBN 978-952-94-8640-3
CounterImage Publications

All original images are documentary images only edited and not owned by Paula Saraste.

Vast Distances

An accordion bookwork with 19 pictures and text passages

The book is a love story based on imaginary events and real locations. It is developed upon documentary photographic evidence that is edited to create an alternative history. The object of desire, John Lennon, is removed revealing only the sites and people of a time passed. It speaks of a possible simultaneous existence of lovers separated by time as well as spatial and existential distances.

10 pages printed on both sides
Pages size 13 x 20 cm
130 cm unfolded
Fabriano accademia 120 gsm, Hochtransparent 90 gsm and NPA Construction paper 120 gsm
3 bookmarks: 13,5  x 19,6 cm; 12,9 x 18,5 cm; 12,7 x 19,9 cm of which one sewn
semi-transparent envelope
Process: inkjet
Edition 100
Conceived by Paula Saraste 2022
ISBN 978-952-94-6746-4
CounterImage Publications

All original images are documentary images only edited and not owned by Paula Saraste.

This book in included in the msdm collection water in the library and Special Collections, Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK, as well as private collections.
It was on view at the 12th Lisbon Photobook Fair and Frosty December Book Fair in Helsinki, 2022.