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The Headpeelers. Edition of 40. 

The Head Peelers is an Artist self-publihed book (40 copies) that takes as a starting point a trip to Ouessant, the furthest island of the coast of Brittany in France. I explored the island in three days and tried to gather as much material as I could. The trip happened in the middle of winter when the weather is very bleak, demanding and changing.

 I have worked with the writer and musician David Toop to turn the journal and notes from the trip into a longer text that is part of the book, where we combined nature observations, ideas, sounds, description of life on the island and experience and failure to make a more fantastic tale. It becomes unclear who saw what, who experience what, and what was really there.  The red cover is such to recall  a «manifesto»  Paul Lafarge's 1808 «The right to be lazy» .


 









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