Joost Vandebrug : Pillow Book

Recently creating ‘Pillow Book’, a collection of pieces about memory and how it evolves over time. 270 stand-alone rectangular cards form the one piece. Each of the cards is a piece of art in its own form, but when placed together it evolves into one work. Joost Vandebrug has sent those 270 cards around the world to individuals creating a work that will possibly never be pieced as one large work again. The work is still seen as one entity but scattered across the globe in a many settings, lives and situations.

Each of the 270 cards were printed one at a time using photographic emulsion transfer. With the individual cards being signed and numbered, the recipient can then find their piece on the image of the larger work.

There is something special about the fragmentation art. Somehow connecting people from all over together to share a moment in time. Knowing there is minimal chance of the pieces forming the larger work again.

‘’They came together as one and now return to their individual state again. This work is part of Pillow Book, a series about memory: how it shifts over time, how it connects past and present, and how what feels whole is often held in fragments. Each card carries its own variation - like memory, never fixed in the exact same way twice.

Together they form one image, while each card also stands on its own. Once most of the cards have found a place, try to map where they ended up. I like the idea that the work wont remain concentrated in one place, but will be spread

across many homes, lives and contexts. Still one work - just held in many.