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The poet, writer, and musician Henjo Hekman owns a collection of approximately 2,500 “parallel cards”—that is, postcards in which the same images are used repeatedly but refer to different places. Conceptual artist Bas Fontein, whose work focuses on collections of text and images, stumbled upon part of this collection in a hotel on the Dutch island of Terschelling. With Hekman’s permission, he used these parallel cards to create the panoramas presented in this publication—idyllic vacation spots, beaches, sunsets, and natural sites along the Dutch coast that have unwittingly become the manufactured byproduct of tourism, both everywhere and nowhere.
Published by BASBOEK Publishers 2018
30 x 10cm
72 pages
The poet, writer, and musician Henjo Hekman owns a collection of approximately 2,500 “parallel cards”—that is, postcards in which the same images are used repeatedly but refer to different places. Conceptual artist Bas Fontein, whose work focuses on collections of text and images, stumbled upon part of this collection in a hotel on the Dutch island of Terschelling. With Hekman’s permission, he used these parallel cards to create the panoramas presented in this publication—idyllic vacation spots, beaches, sunsets, and natural sites along the Dutch coast that have unwittingly become the manufactured byproduct of tourism, both everywhere and nowhere.
Published by BASBOEK Publishers 2018
30 x 10cm
72 pages
