Conversations with trees
17,5 x 23.5 cm | 48 pages | 24 plates | double layered, section-sewn softcover with open spine | title image - glued photogravure print on Hahnemühle paper | April 2025 | First edition
All images are original Photogravures handprinted by the artist on Minogami and Mingeshi Washi paper | Photography & Design © 2025 Kathleen Alisch
Printed in Berlin, Germany
‚Conversations with trees‘ is a collection of photographic thoughts on beauty, fragility and resilience. It searches for the graphic nuances of landscape, explores the boundary between the representational and the abstract, and reflects on the composition of the signs of a misunderstood language.
Rooted in these contemplative explorations, the book presents twenty-fourth handprinted black and white photogravures showing trees from the artist‘s immediate urban surroundings. Passed by every day for years, they have become companions: silent figures standing out in the pattern of the city.
Printed on light, transparent paper and layered in subtle overlaps, the trees unfold in a rhythmic structure that evokes the sense of strolling through a forest.
These black and white meditations on the metaphorical and unconscious act of creation alternately invite the gaze to wander into the grey expanse or linger in the darkness of the night.
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