Worked, engraved and inked Latanier palm fronds are used by Laotian monks as a written means for transmitting sacred texts. Bound with twine threaded through a hole in the individual sheets, they form traditional books.
Untreated, they look astonishingly like gouge or chisel strokes in matter itself. These are gigantic outcrop lines filled with sensuality. The indentations that make them rough together with their sometimes stripped edges give them their outlines. They are punctuation marks filled with an intrinsic tension that live in their closeness or distance from each other. They are parentheses which create the tension needed for rhythm and they define the space where emptiness is filled and intervals blossom.
