Without Form
by Ben Robinson
Introduction
Star charts for a new cosmology
And the earth was without form, and void.
Genesis 1:2 (KJV)
Is a gap nothing? Or is it eloquent? Of what does a silence speak?
Erín Moure
What to say about a work concerned with void, gap, and silence?
Since the mid-1500s, the text of the Bible has been subdivided into chapters and verses. Those markings are all we see in Without Form. I was interested in the paratext: that which goes around or over top of the text, the frame we seem to require to approach the divine.
As a person who is used to working with words, there is something thrilling about making a book containing only numbers. We know, of course, that it is possible to represent the universe with numbers but this is not math, or at least it is a very different kind of math. I hoped to step back into the void here, to catch a glimpse of the world before the first word.
Book I: Genesis
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Without Form
sixty-six books (Animated)
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Featured by The Blasted Tree: November 24, 2020
Ben Robinson
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Without Form is a Blasted Tree original collection of visual poetry.
ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-63-9
Cover Design by Kyle Flemmer