Salt

Salt works by Motoi Yamamoto
“Salt seems to possess a close relation with human life beyond time and space. Moreover, especially in Japan, it is indispensable in the death culture.”
(Mourners in Japan are often sprinkled with salt after leaving a funeral in order to ward off evil)

More on the story behind Motoi's work: link to video
More images: Artists without borders album

Textbook - on display

TEXTBOOK is part of the semi-permanent display at Leeds University's new Gallery - Treasures of the Brotherton - as the example of artists' books in their Special Collections.
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This bookwork has been commissioned in 2007 on the occasion of a Special Collections exhibition at the University Gallery Leeds, curated by John McDowall and Chris Taylor as part of "pages", a project supported by the Arts Council of England.