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Dull Ache<\/strong>
Photography by Fiona Lascelles and poetry by Jasmine Gallagher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed and published by Back Space Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Dull Ache<\/em> is a small photobook offering a place for readers to meander and seek solace. It was created by photographer Fiona Lascelles, in collaboration with poet Jasmine Gallagher. First published in early 2020, it is now in its second edition, and these are the last few hand numbered copies that will be available. It has been shown at both the Wellington Photobook Fair and Melbourne Artbook Fair in March 2020.

The following quote by Sally Mann guided the development of the interconnected words and images: \u201cAs for me, I see both beauty and the dark side of the things \u2026 and I see them at the same time \u2026 The Japanese have a phrase for this dual perception: mono no aware. It means \u201cbeauty tinged with sadness,\u201d for there cannot be any real beauty without the indolic whiff of decay.\u201d Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs<\/em>

The images are quiet, and while made in a period of grief, they are not an expression of sadness but a moment for pause. And the poetic fragments are brought together to form one long poem, which meanders through the pages, forming a conversation with the photographs. This form of ecoGothic poetry responds to the hope found in nature, as a source of solace: where death is revealed not as an ending, but as a crucial part of the endless cycle of regeneration.

The dust jacket unfolds to a secret image, a secret garden, a place of contemplation. A postcard with this image is also included should the reader be willing to share their own thoughts, extending the conversation.

Jasmine Gallagher is a poet, art critic and doctoral candidate at teh University of Otago, where she is reserching landscape mythology in contemporary New Zealand art and poetry.

Fiona Lascelles is an Auckland art director who photographs the quiet and unassuming moments she encounters while going about her day.


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softback with jacket| 50 pages
165 x 210 mm
#28 from the first edition of 30
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Dull Ache<\/strong>
Photography by Fiona Lascelles and poetry by Jasmine Gallagher. <\/p>\n

Designed and published by Back Space Books<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dull Ache<\/em> is a small photobook offering a place for readers to meander and seek solace. It was created by photographer Fiona Lascelles, in collaboration with poet Jasmine Gallagher. First published in early 2020, it is now in its second edition, and these are the last few hand numbered copies that will be available. It has been shown at both the Wellington Photobook Fair and Melbourne Artbook Fair in March 2020.<\/p>\n

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