Becoming Fossil

Becoming Fossil
2023


Leporello instruction booklet / field guide

Risograph and UV print on Munken, cardboard and transfer paper
Numbered edition of 45

Developed during AIR at Frans Masereel Centrum


This instruction booklet includes drawings, photographs and text. It is meant to
be used as an intimate field guide to open up one's mind to more-than-human
processes and temporalities, in this case, fossilization. The typography
becomes increasingly flattened as the text proceeds, dreaming of a great weight.
Questions that lead to the making of this guide: How to imagine timescales that
differ greatly from our own? How can we approach an overwhelming, distant topic
and foster a more intimate, gentle understanding? How might we think ahead by
stretching our minds and bodies into the distant past