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 consists of short writings by Jeffrey Benjamin and Marko Marila and original artwork by Jeffrey Benjamin. The book will be published in a limited edition of 200 copies by the Center for the Study of the Relationship Between Words and Stones on New Year’s Eve 2024.