In continuation to my first book "Coming Home, four abandoned houses in Clare, Ireland', I started experimenting with the phenomenon 'book'. I wanted to have complete control of the making, unlike the production of my first book. And I wanted the images to be less clean, less distant.
I was, and I am still, not finished working with the poetic force of the images in abandoned houses that I photographed. I started to feel the need to physically show the kind of material that I came across in these houses, next to the photographs.
In this book I uses pieces of cardboard as 'pages'. Once this material was used to pack up and transport rooftiles. In collaboration with the photographs every page is a collage. The result of this experiment carries the title: 'Coming Home, archive 2', and has 8 'pages' of cardboard. The photographs were taken in the very first house I visited. Where it all started. I was extremely touched by the colours I found there: bleu and green floors, pink and red and yellow and blue walls. An extremely powerfull poetic beauty.
The house was situated on a small hill, well visible. Beside a small but busy road; to stop and park the car was an adventure.
The cows were grazing in the garden. From the house there was a magnificent view on the surrounding hills and the sea. A spot which made me dream. How have people been able to ever leave here. But well, you can't live on a view alone...
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