Follow Y/our River: A protocol for deep mapping liminal space [msdm publications]
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Photography and Site - Routes, Cartographies and Drifts
International Conference of Photography Studies
Venues:
Universidade da Madeira / Madeira University - Colégio dos Jesuítas: Rua dos Ferreiros 105, 9000-082 Funchal – [CJ]
Arquivo e Biblioteca da Madeira / Madeira Archive and Library – Caminho dos Álamos 35, 9020-064 Funchal – [ABM]
Porta 33 – Rua do Quebra Costas 33, 9000-034 Funchal
4 – 6 December 2023
The International Conference of Photography Studies, will be held on 4-6 December 2023 at Colégio dos Jesuítas, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, with the theme Photography and Site – Routes, Cartographies and Drifts. The conference aims to explore the ways in which photography has been used to map and represent territories, as well as documenting journeys, migrations and movements across landscapes. In addition to designating spatially defined territories, the notion of “site” has been associated with metaphorical and metonymic meanings, with historical, identity and relational dimensions, which replace or, at least, superimpose this more essential geographic dimension. Moreover, this overcoming of a more properly territorial circumscription is implicit in studies that relate photographic representation to geographic imagination, where photography emerges as a particularly apt means of defining spatiality. In this sense, from the digital revolution of the 21st century itself, where photography is inscribed as a plural practice and hybrid technique, the reconfiguration of this concept and others in its proximity, such as: that of lieux de mémoire (Pierre Nora), that of non-place (Marc Augé), or heterotopia (Michel Foucault). At the same time, we highlight the role of photography in artistic practices in different disciplinary areas, which privilege notions such as wandering, drifting and chance, namely, through the act of walking, either as an object or as a methodology or work process.
4TH DECEMBER
10h00 · 13h00 — OFICINA / WORKSHOP* – Poéticas do Arquivo: Fotopintura e outras invenções / Poetics of the Archive: Photopainting and other inventions (held in Portuguese) — ÂNGELA BERLINDE [CJ · Poente sul]
10h00 · 13h00 — VISITA/ VISIT* – Os acervos fotográficos no Arquivo e Biblioteca da Madeira: um périplo pelas áreas técnicas / funds of Madeira Archive and Library: a look into the technical facilities [ABM]
14h30 · 15h00 — Abertura Oficial / Welcome Session
15h00 · 16h00 — PAINEL 1 · PANEL 1 – João Francisco Camacho – MOD. Emília Tavares [CJ · Auditório geral]
» João Francisco Camacho: indícios da singularidade de um trabalho de paisagem na Madeira — Emanuel Brás
» João Francisco Camacho: de quantas imagens se faz uma vista — Célia Ferreira
» Projeto de documentário sobre João Francisco Camacho — conversa com Margarida Medeiros
16h00 · 16h15 — Coffee break [CJ · Sala dos Arcos]
16h15 · 18h30 — Projeção do filme SUZANNE DAVEAU com apresentação da realizadora / Projection of the film SUZANNE DAVEAU with a presentation by the director (PT – subtitled in English) — LUÍSA HOMEM
5TH DECEMBER
09h00 · 10h30 — KEYNOTE — For a photographic history of possible pasts: routes, cartography and drifts (held in Portuguese) — ANA MAUAD [CJ · Auditório]
10h50 · 12h30 — PARALLEL SESSIONS
PANEL 2 – Nineteenth Century Photographers: Views and Circulations – MOD. Rita Rodrigues [CJ · Auditório poente]
» Afonso Chaves e a Grande Viagem a África (1906) – Victor dos Reis
» Trabalhos photograficos de Portugal feitos em Julho e Agosto de 1889 por Joaquim Augusto de Sousa — Catarina Pestana
» O Paradoxo Romântico da Fotografia: a paisagem madeirense entre arte e técnica — Emília Tavares
PAINEL 3 · PANEL 3 – Circulações, identidades / Circulations, identities – MOD. Elisa Bertolotti [CJ · Auditório nascente]
» Italian Sources of Pedro II’s Photography Collection — Sofya Dmitrieva
» Periplo de Exposiciones de Patrimonio Fotográfico de la Macaronesia — Gabriel Betancor, Miguel Angel Martín
» Fotografia & asilo: Leituras da história da psiquiatria — Mariana Gomes da Costa
14h00 · 15h30 — SESSÕES PARALELAS | PARALLEL SESSIONS
PAINEL 4 · PANEL 4 – Práticas Contemporâneas e Foto-Livros / Contemporary Practices and Photobooks – MOD. Susana Lourenço Marques [CJ · Auditório Poente]
» Geografias ficcionais: fotografia, literatura e teatro em dois fotolivros de Jorge Molder e Paulo Nozolino — Filipe Figueiredo, Cosimo Chiarelli
» Num Japão e Noutro: António Júlio Duarte — José Bértolo
» A Fotografia como Lugar de Resistência Visual Generalizada: Topoï, Migrações e Desterritorializações — Raquel Schefer, Catarina Boieiro
PAINEL 5 · PANEL 5 – Cartografia e fronteiras / Cartography and borders – MOD. Paulo Catrica [CJ · Auditório Nascente]
» Mapping the Colonial Imagination: photography, imaging and digital practice — Catherine Troiano
» Fleeing villages were not photographed. Reflections on the photographic construction of colonial borders in Portuguese possessions in Africa — Teresa Flores
» From photogrammetry to cartography – What do Albrecht Meydenbauer, Sebastian Finsterwalder and Google Maps have in common? — Marco Rasch
15h50 · 17h20 — SESSÕES PARALELAS | PARALLEL SESSIONS
PAINEL 6 · PANEL 6 – Caminhar / Walking — MOD. Vitor Magalhães [CJ · Auditório Poente]
» Humanscape in Geopoetics- Visual Diagnoses of Reclaimed Land — Yue Hu
» Follow Y | our River: A Protocol for Deep Mapping Liminal Space — paula roush, Tamara Stoll, Hera Santos
» Allt – Photography, Woodlands and Watercourses in the Highlands of Scotland — Fergus Heron
PAINEL 7 · PANEL 7 – Cartografia e contra-cartografia / Cartography and counter-cartography – MOD. Carlos Valente [CJ · Auditório nascente]
» A cidade instagramável: fotografias do Porto — Violeta Rodríguez Becerril
» Percursos marcantes de fotógrafos na paisagem cultural do Recife. Uma cartografia fotográfica e sentimental de cidade portuária no Nordeste do Brasil — Fabiana Bruce Silva
18h00 — Visita à Porta 33 | Visit to Porta 33
6TH DECEMBER
09h00 · 10h30 — KEYNOTE — Derivas – DANIEL BLAUFUKS em conversa com Ana Gandum e Sandra Camacho (sessão em inglês) Drifts – DANIEL BLAUFUKS in conversation with Ana Gandum and Sandra Camacho (held in English) [CJ · Auditório geral]
10h50 · 12h30 — SESSÕES PARALELAS | PARALLEL SESSIONS
PAINEL 8 · PANEL 8 – Arquiteturas / Architectures – MOD. Teresa Flores [CJ · Auditório poente]
» PREENCHER UM DUPLO VAZIO uma leitura crítica e mnemónica da cidade nova de Santo André 1971-2021 — Paulo Catrica
» A construção de uma identidade territorial portuguesa através da fotografia e a dimensão geográfica do olhar: arquiteto-fotógrafo António Menéres — Larissa Cunha e Luís Urbano
» A fotografia entre outros escombros — Flora Paim
PAINEL 9 · PANEL 9 – Paisagem e memória / Memoryscapes – MOD. Anne Reverseau [CJ · Auditório nascente]
» Childhood Memory in Viagem ao Sol — Inês Isidoro
» Materiality, fascination, and accessibility: the evolution of photography in Lara Almarcegui Wasteland project – Léa Battais
» Landscapes of Myth, Memory and Imagination: Ursula Schulz – Dornburg’s Memoryscapes — Lucy Rogers
14h00 · 15h30 — SESSÕES PARALELAS | PARALLEL SESSIONS
PAINEL 10 · PANEL 10 – Deslocamentos, extrativismo / Displacement, extractivism – MOD. Ana Gandum [CJ · Auditório Poente]
» Arquivos de Família: Entre Memória, Migração e Não-Lugares - Uma abordagem autoetnográfica nas práticas do documentário — Ana Sofia Almeida
» Espacialidades da distância: a máquina, o duplo, a projeção — Isabel Stein
» O grão da montanha, sobre fotografia e extrativismo — Susana Lourenço Marques
PAINEL 11 · PANEL 11 – Foto-livros e intermedialidade / Photobooks and Intermediality – MOD. Sandra Camacho [CJ · Auditório nascente]
» The weaves and tensions between photography and word: the photobook as a narrative territory — Ângela Ferreira
» Photobooks about places (countries, regions, cities): how to show a collective identity? — Anne Reversau
» Adelheid Frackiewicz: Relations Among Land Art, Trauma and Translation — Adelheid von Maltitz (Frackiewicz), Suzanne de Villiers-Human
15h50 · 17h20 — PAINEL 12 · PANEL 12 – Lugares de Sobrevivência / Sites of Survival – MOD. Raquel Schefer [CJ · Auditório geral]
» Photography of the Dispossessed: Aesthetic Governmentality and Post-Famine Landscapes — Justin Carville
» Life in Vague: Existing on the Margins — Casey Hayward
» Missing and fade in the landscape — Sandra Krizic Roban
17h20 — Encerramento / Closing Session [CJ · Auditório]
msdm publications is thrilled to announce its collaboration with the 5th issue of JORNAL , centered around the theme of 'Publishing as a Protest Practice.' This collaboration includes an insert derived from the 2023 photozine, 'Government Studies.'
Launch: 29 October 16.30h, STET Drawing Room, Lisbon
Editorial
Perhaps the first artist to consider publication as a form of protest was Goya when he created "Disasters of War,” which he engraved between 1810 and 1820, depicting the Napoleonic invasions. Goya passed away in 1828, and it wasn't until 1863 that the work was published due to its explicit and anti-heroic nature, with a print run of over a thousand copies of the complete series. The title of the work, handwritten by the author, is "Fatales consequencias de la sangrenta guerra em España com Buonaparte" (Fatal Consequences of the Bloody War in Spain with Buonaparte).
In the visual arts, we only see publication as protest again 100 years later in the manifestos published by the avant-gardes in the early 20th century, with Marinetti's "words in freedom" (Futurist Manifesto, 1909) defended in a controversial and revolutionary tone.
In a time of urgency, we invited artists Tiago Baptista and Paula Ferreira for Issue 5 of the newspaper to contemplate publication as a form of protest in the format of a visual essay. This results in a story about the capacity of literary production to generate effective resistance and tells the life of the American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, born in Eatonville, a small community founded by formerly enslaved people who had become free in the southern United States.
Artist and educator paula roush proposes another visual essay, "Government Studies," based on the protests and strikes by teachers in London during the past academic year. She embarked on a journey of reading placards with her students from the London South Bank University, which resulted in the publication of a photozine by the publisher msdm (mobile strategies of display and mediation), paula roush's home/studio/gallery.
José Marmeleira, an educator, journalist, and cultural critic, is the author of the text "Publishing a protest is not making a post," in which, with the support of Hito Steyerl and Hannah Arendt, he reflects on protest, publication, and public space.
Joana Rita, a final-year student in the Master's in Fine Arts program at ESAD.CR, is the author of the text "Quatro Rodas de Manifesto" (Four Wheels of a Manifesto). As Alex Danchev mentions in the introduction to the book "100 Artists' Manifestos," writing a manifesto is an act of optimism and resilience.
** POSTPONED! NEW DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED**
paula will do a presentation and facilitate a workshop at the Photobook Week Aarhus, this year under the theme Future Revisited, to shape a new discourse around things such as Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence.
ONLINE PRESENTATION + Q&A
“A.I. Disruption: Exploring Experimental Photobook Publishing with Artificial Intelligence” DATE: October 29, 2023, 18:30 – 20:30 CEST [+]
NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
In the realm of photographic practice, there has been substantial experimentation and debate surrounding generated images. Yet, one intriguing and relatively uncharted territory lies in the utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a transformative tool in experimental publishing. Rooted in avant-garde practices of détournement and meaning disruption, this online presentation aims to delve into how AI can be actively and deliberately harnessed to play a disruptive role in the field of photobook publishing.
More details here [ + ]
ONLINE WORKSHOP
Pageturner 2023 workshop: “A.I. Disruption: Artistic Inscriptions in AI-Invoked Photobook Publishing.”
DATES: November 5 + November 12 10:00 – 13:00 ; 14:00 – 17:00 (LIVE, via Zoom)
Duration: 2 sundays, 6 hours each session [with a lunch break]
NEW DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
The 2023 Pageturner workshop explores the impact of AI on the realm of photobook publishing, with a particular focus on the artistic inscriptions that AI can invoke. Participants will dive into the diverse applications of AI in photobook creation, spanning content generation, curation, and the printing process. Drawing inspiration from AI-driven case studies, this workshop will guide participants in harnessing AI’s potential to organize image collections, enhance narratives through deep mapping, and craft speculative photobook narratives using AI-generated text prompts. Furthermore, we will delve into the dynamic landscape of AI-powered automated print-on-demand platforms, enabling cost-effective self-publishing for aspiring photobook creators.
** “A.I. Disruption Day 1: Irony and Detournement”
– SUNDAY, November 5
NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
** “A.I. Disruption Day 1: Irony and Detournement”
AM
– Exploring AI applications for photobook editing and storytelling.
– Unleashing artistic strategies of irony and detournement to transform photographic collections, enrich images, shape editorial design and layout, and contextualize narratives through deep mapping.
PM
-Personal projects [prompts for project development + feedforward]
** A.I. Disruption Day 2: Artistic Print on Demand”
– SUNDAY, November 12
NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
AM
– Navigating artistic strategies within the realm of print-on-demand.
– Showcasing AI-powered applications and platforms tailored for photobook printing.
– Mastering the art of leveraging automated platforms for cost-effective self-publishing, including ISBN and global distribution.
PM
-Personal projects [prompts for project development + feedforward]
Follow Y/our River: A protocol for deep mapping liminal space [msdm publications]
is at Reframing the Archive International Conference 2023
IMAGE, ARCHIVE & CONFLICT (Im)material Ecologies in the Digital Age
22-23 Sept 2023
FRIDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER
10h00 WELCOME Ana Catarina Pinho Conference convenor
10h10 KEYNOTE SPEAKER PROF. ANNA MARÍA GUASCH THE PERFORMATIVE ARCHIVE The material, immaterial and corporeal in archive-conflict relations.
11h30 PANEL I THE PAST MADE PRESENT VISUALISING CONFLICT THROUGH AESTHETIC FORMS OF REPRESENTATION
GUSTAVO BALBELA- PHOTOGRAPHY, MONTAGE, AND ARCHIVE An atlas of a dictatorship and its landscapes
JOANA BRITES – RETHINKING THE ‘TEMPORAL TURN’ IN CONTEMPORARY ART Artist’s concept of history and their use of archive photography in tackling dissonant Portuguese past
PAUL LOWE – PRESENTING THE PAST INTO THE PRESENT Artistic interventions into archives in the former Yugoslavia
12h30 PANEL II GAPS, DISSONANCES, AND FICTIONAL IMAGINARIES IN ARCHIVAL PRACTICES
SADIE BARKER – SONNY ASSUS’S INTERVENTION ON THE IMAGINARY Mediating postcolonial and aesthetic theory
ELENA ROSAURO – APPROPRIATION / RE-MEDIATION On artistic strategies dealing with violence in contemporary Latin American art
MARÍA PIQUERAS-PÉREZ ARCHIVAL INTERVENTION TO REMEDIATE THE BIASED REPRESENTATION OF BLACK BRITISHNESS The case of passion of remembrance (1986) by Sankofa film and video collective
14h00 PANEL III CONTESTING NARRATIVES ARCHIVES AND ATLASES AS PRODUCTIVE SPACES
AMALIA CAPUTO DODGE – PERMEABLE MEMBRANES The archive in visual atlas constructions
DANIELA CIFUENTES ACEVEDO – A GENDER STUDIES APPROACH ON THE MNEMOSYNE ATLAS AS A LIVING ARCHIVE
MANUEL PADÍN FERNÁNDEZ – THE ARCHIVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE AND ITS MAJOR CHALLENGES EXIT, a case study
15h00 PANEL IV DIGITAL UTOPIA-DYSTOPIA IN UNTIMELY ARCHIVES DIASPORIC MEMORIES AND COLONIAL GHOSTS
BÁRBARA BERGAMASCHI NOVAES – REVELATIONS AND COVER-UPS OF THE DIGITAL ARKHÉ The Archive Fever in amateur homemovie. A study case in the forensic desktop film “Filme Particular”
EDUARDA KUHNERT – ARCHIVES AND DISTOPIAS IN CEILÂNDIA The poetic montage of “Mato Seca em Chamas”
16h00 PANEL V META-VISIONS AND DIGITAL DYNAMICS UNVEILING THE DIGITAL PARADIGM WITHIN HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
ANA PERAICA – GENERATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE COMMON HUMAN ANCESTOR
ALESSANDRA FREDIANELLI – ARCHIVING PRACTICES AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE The digital archives of the Arab Uprisings
JANE MCARTHUR – SAFEGUARDING THE CRITICAL MOMENT Maintaining relational values between images when digitising the London bomb damage photograph archive 1940-1945
17h00 GUEST SPEAKER EMERIC LHUISSET SHOWING THE WAR a contemporary approach
SATURDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER
10h00 WELCOME Ana Catarina Pinho Conference convenor
10h10 KEYNOTE SPEAKER SARA CALLAHAN – THE PERMEABLE IMAGE Empathy, archival theory and contemporary artistic practice
11h30 PANEL VI MURDER, MASSACRE, AND SURVEILLANCE IMAGES THE ARCHIVE AS A TOOL FOR ACTIVATING MEMORY AND AGENCY OF BODIES IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
FILIPE FIGUEIREDO & LAURA PERALTA – BEYOND THE INDEX Visual tools for memory activation
JONE RUBIO MAZKIARAN – GLADYS HAS BEEN KILLED Analysis of the visual archive of a murder
MAYRA VILLAVICENCIO PRINCIPE ESCAC – TURNING THE GAZE The right to opacity of surveillance images in protest contexts
12h30 PANEL VII REFRAMING MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND LIFE THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ARCHIVAL ART
ELIÁN STOLARSKY – ARCHIVAL ALCHEMY Transmuting trauma through artistic reinterpretation
ELISABETH R. FRIEDMAN – DOR GUEZ’S SCANOGRAMS Archiving the virtual
PAULA ROUSH – FOLLOW Y/OUR RIVER A protocol for deep mapping liminal space
14h00 PANEL VIII MATERIALITY AND MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
ALEXANDRE GOUIN – MATERIALITY AND MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Archive reappropriation in Takeshi Murata’s work
NICHOLAS ANDUEZA – ZOMBIES, GLITCH AND THE PANDEMIC Digitally melting the world through a fictional archive
LUCAS MURARI – HACKING THE TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARCHIVES Jacques Perconte’s intersection of datamoshing and neo-impressionist aesthetics
15h00 PANEL IX ARCHIVING CHAOS, ZONING AND INVISIBILISING, DATIFYING BEHAVIOURS OTHER VISUALITIES IN THE CONTROL SOCIETY
SEBNEM CAKALOGULLARI – EXPLORING TRAUMATIC IMAGES, TEST RECORDS, AND THE ARCHIVE Deciphering spatial relationships, new realities, and the chaotic image
JOEL PELÁEZ – FORGOTTEN IMAGES Neighborhoods through Youtube videos
SHRUTI NAGPAL – DATAFICATION, SURVEILLANCE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY IN URBAN CLASSROOMS A study based in New Delhi, India
16h00 GUEST SPEAKER PEDRO LAGOA – Conflict = energy = life = friction = energy = life. No conflict, no energy, no life. the archive of destruction
EXHIBITION 'LIQUID MEMORY' (MEMORIA LIQUIDA)
AUGUST 25 - OCTOBER 15
WATER MUSEUM, LISBON
Curatorship as an artistic practice is once again an expanding field in contemporaneity, enabling the dialogue between the author/curator's practice and that of others. On the other hand, the field of territory photography, and more specifically that of the technical landscapes originated by technical system installations, is still an exploratory field, just as the editorial exercise of the artist's book is an artistic practice.
Liquid Memory is a curatorial, artistic, and editorial project that includes the participation of 25 authors and the inclusion of 33 photographic and videographic projects. Its object of reflection is the issues of water, both in problematising the supply system to Lisbon and in the various geopolitical, contextual, biographical, identity-related, and procedural appropriations addressed by the various authors in translating what water signifies in their artistic practice.
Water is the theme and medium of these works and is the theme and medium of the exhibition proposed here.
Authors - Francisco Varela, paula roush, Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro, Mide Plácido, Susana Paiva, Betina Dal Molin Juglair, Miguel Marecos, Joana Nascimento, Maria João Ferreira, David Goldenberg, Inês R. Amado, Teresa Huertas, Manuela Vaz, Ana Botelho, Alice WR, Raul Simões Pinto, arquivo NDMALO, Carla Fragata, Manuela Matos Monteiro, Luís Carvalhal, Natércia Carneira, João de Goes, Renato Roque, and Eliane Velozo & Severino Laba.
Curated by Francisco Varela
Location:
EPAL Water Museum
Barbadinhos Steam Pumping Station
Rua Alviela 12
1750-012 Lisbon
Tel +351 21 810 02 15
Dates:
08/25/2023 – 10/15/2023 | Exhibition
08/25 | 6:30 PM Exhibition Inauguration
09/22 | 3:00 PM Curator-guided Tour
10/13 | 3:00 PM Liquid Memory, what curatorship?"
Photography exhibition, with the theme COLLECTIVE HOUSE, included in the programming of the Arroios Photography Festival (from August 30th to September 15th) and in the Algarve Photography Festival (from October 21st to November 25th).
Follow Y/our River: A protocol for deep mapping liminal space
at Reframing the Archive International Conference 2023
IMAGE, ARCHIVE & CONFLICT (Im)material Ecologies in the Digital Age
22-23 Sept 2023
ONLINE | Saturday 23 Sept, part of panel 7, 12:30-13:30 pm
This proposal presents a project titled "Follow Y/our River." The project is based on a self-initiated artist residency conducted by hḗrā, tamara, and I (paula) along the river Lea Valley, where we explored the entanglement of human and non-human bodies of water. The residency resulted in two publications, "Follow Y/our River Lea-minal Edges: Prompts for Transitory States of Being" and "Follow Y/our River: A Manual for Deep Mapping in the Lower Lea Valley." Our objective for this project was to develop a protocol for deep mapping that captured the diverse aspects of Lea's liminal space. By combining photography, walking, collecting materials and field notes, the project aimed to capture the archaeological, ecological, sculptural, and archival sites in the Lea Valley. The protocol was designed to engage readers and visitors in the exploration of transitory states of being and the entanglement of human and non-human entities along the river. The project was presented through a book launch and exhibition at the Borough Road Gallery in May 2023. The exhibition included an editorial lab that invited readers to "follow y/our river" and create their own constellation of printed matter. Visitors were provided with a map at the entrance, guiding them to various working stations. The map features a visual index showcasing the dialogue between the artists and the fluid geography of the Lea.
EXHIBITION PUBLICATION 'RELATE NORTH: POSSIBLE FUTURES '
The mobile bookwork 'WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved' in collaboration – Tonia Carless, Robin Serjeant, paula roush, James Benedict Brown, Matthew Hynam, and Umeå University Sweden – is part of the printed publication for the Relate North Exhibition.
The Relate North Exhibition, in partnership with SOVA, YukonU, and the University of Lapland, showcased artists from the Circumpolar North, exploring the theme of "Possible Futures."
The Relate North logo, inspired by a sculpture from Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin artist Jackie Olson, holds deep symbolism as a storytelling portal in their culture. The catalogue's brilliant design was brought to life by Yukon artist Amy Ball and printed by @colourcodeprint
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk