Abstracts

Art book

Maybe over coffee – or out walking around in the city – we decided that we liked the literary form of the abstract. Why is the abstract so beautiful? Is it because it is unformed, full of potential? Is the abstract more like a poem than an essay or an article? Is it because of its length that the abstract beckons? A “call” for papers, a “call” for sessions: this suggests that someone is out there, calling out, through a similar text, sometimes with just a few sentences, sometimes just a page.

Abstracts (2024) consists of short writings by Jeffrey Benjamin and Marko Marila and original line drawings and gouache paintings by Jeffrey Benjamin. The book, designed by Triinu Silla, was published in a limited edition of 200 hardcover copies by the Center for the Study of the Relationship Between Words and Stones.

Photos: Triinu Silla