Formlessness
Eric Francisco
2019

Formlessness is an artis’s book that explores the underlying sadness and ephemerality in our intimate relationship with everyday objects. This book, which is housed and preserved in a shadowbox, contains a collection of everyday objects which people can’t seem to let go and the memories, histories and narratives attached to them. However, the more you intimately engage with this book by touching, the ink rubs off, elevating its preciousness and reinforcing its ephemeral nature.

This piece begs to ask: in the absence of a physical form — when the object ceases to exist physically in our lives — how well are we able to sustain the detailed memory that it contains? How would it disrupt our histories? Moreover, how would this alter the narrative of the ‘self’ which we set to define who we are?