Paul L. Kershaw

Being quite slim and compact, Gathering has a notebook feel to it. In all but the first opening the image is on the recto. Poems, other integrated text and the images are intended to complement each other; there is no attempt at illustration. As the book has taken quite a long time to come together the sense of random accumulation and relaxed experimentation are embraced as a natural outcome. So less emphasis in the layout is placed on rigorous precision and uniformity. Instead the character of collecting this or that, and finding a place to store them, has been accepted. There is light-hearted playfulness too. All the elements have been relief-printed, with the images comprising up to eight layers of colour.