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A MATERIAL / ITS BOOKS / ITS TRACES

The Trunk

The Trunk · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

THE ORIGINAL BOOKS ↓
01

Looking at the Object

The Trunk · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

02

The Dark Years

On the cover of The Dark Years, the motif is identified as “The Trunk.” One hundred and forty years of secret archives. Three generations of custodians.

03

The Limits of This Correspondence

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.

The original books

FORMS / STORIES

In the stories

1 NOVEL
S / Reading
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR JOURNEY

Something
remained.

You followed a presence, crossed a place, looked at an object. The stories kept their place. Your visit left another trace.

“A life remembered.
A present we choose.”

Write down my first impression ↗Return to my traces ↗
A letter from the visual experience, saved on this device.
The Trunk — APODYOPSIS