120 x 170mm, 32 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, Ed. of 400, 2022

"The drawings and text in “Light grey blue folds me open like a book” stem from artist Maike Hemmers’ practice of mental body scans in which she notes down felt colors in each body limb as well as their associations. The color body scans are the start of a process that leads towards large-scale pastel drawings. Composed and edited by Yin Yin Wong, “Light grey blue” intuitively takes these layers apart to weave them together again into a singular poetic narrative. “Dark green throat speaks from the leaf in motion. / Purple breath connects to the hips / and the soul muscle, / tightness wants expansion. / Red heart, I am a loving determination.” × Maike Hemmers is an artist based in Rotterdam. Her research reflects on the affective relation of bodies and inner spaces through drawing, text, and everyday art objects. With an interest in feminist architecture, soft resistance, and queer directions, her work explores intuitive material relations, channeling spiritual and somatic practices in a process of self-examination shaping embodied consciousness."

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