a book of days

Peter von Tiesenhausen. Out of My Mind (detail).
1000 pieces in 10 bundles. Ashes and clay
on pulp, twine and sealing wax. 2011.

Peter von Tiesenhausen. Out of My Mind (detail).

Peter von Tiesenhausen. Out of My Mind (detail).

A thousand small pages, stacked one upon another. At intervals, bundled with twine and sealed with red sealing wax. Each one a record of one man's days, random and arbitrary and meaningful. Locked like a diary. Sealed like a letter. Closed like a door.

Each one a story, a small self-portrait. A meditation.

A memory.

See more works by Peter von Tiesenhausen at the following posts on this blog -- singed;  burning man; or approaches.