city butterflies

Nagoya, Japan 2011

Photographs by Eiji Watanabe

As part of a collaboration with the Japanese artist

Eiji Watanabe, last year I installed a series of butterfly

names in a former kimono shop in downtown Nagoya.

The shop was recently occupied by a local politician

as a base to launch his (successful) mayoral election

campaign. The butterflies still hovered, in a more

politically charged space.

The Mountains Of Holland

The Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas, the Cairngorms, what

are these compared with the mountains of Holland, whose

height and range can never be measured ? Wrapped in their

own weather, invisible to the eye, they constantly recede

before the traveller who begins to imagine they are only

a rumour. Yet in the small hours, or in the evening, one who

walks pensively in a solemn extent of water-meadows may

sometimes feel the implication of their weight.

A boxed edition containing a flag, enamel plaque and dvd is

published by De Vlaggen Club/The Flag Club and available

from Peter Foolen Editions

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