The Pseudepigrapha

I created this book as a response to my love of both collecting and my habit of experiencing something through graphic representation. It is also a homage to science and some Zen practices of experiencing the moment. Where I believe that recreating or studying something is a kind of sacrament not found in religious books. It also falls into line with some of my quasi-religious concepts of communing with that unconscious Godhead of the universe. In the form of the book I wanted my visual explorations to be contained like scientific specimens. And have them stack over or trump the seemingly random text elements culled from an online version of The Book of Enoch. The text clippings are in both English and Gee (an Ethiopian Language.) I chose to collage text from the book of Enoch to contrast the paleness of conventional religious scripture with that of the images, and since Enoch is part of the Psuedopigraphica, an almost religious text of two major religions, it suited my needs very well in tone without being conceptually pejorative. There is also some postmodern irony happening here about an “almost real” religious text being superseded by an almost real (but actually twice or three times removed) set of visual elements. The postmodern technique of information stacking and hidden veils of information are also utilised in this book as well.