Three artists respond to Slender Volumes

LIMITED EDITION ARTIST PRINTS

The poems in Slender Volumes unfold by cadence, sometimes floating sparsely across the pages and other times set in tight blocks. We asked three artists with distinct visual practices to offer a response to Richard von Sturmer’s poetry, which is in turn a response to the writings of philosopher-poet Eihei Dogen (1200–1253). This chain of responses culminates in limited edition artist prints by Philippa Emery, Thom Hinton, and Adel Salmanzadeh.

Philippa Emery has created a series of pencil drawings playing with ideas of reciprocity and duality. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau with her husband and 2-year-old son, and she works as a community mental health nurse. Her art practice exists in those wonderful little moments between the chaos.

Thom Hinton combines his interest in Celtic cosmology with block printing to elaborate on selected poems. He is a tattoist, artist, and kaimahi taiohi based in Tāmaki Makaurau. After a four-year apprenticeship under tā moko artist Vincent David, he established Bruce, a tattoo studio and artist-run space where he practises alongside Madison-Lee Walker-Sinclair.

THOM HINTON

Responding as a Baha’i artist to a Buddhist poet, and incorporating verses from Slender Volumes in Persian calligraphy, Adel Salmanzadeh offers a special artwork for the cover, “A carpet that we wove together.” He came to Aotearoa New Zealand from Iran as a Baha’i refugee youth in 1989, and now works as an artist and educator in Tāmaki Makaurau. Adel was introduced to Persian calligraphy by his late father Abbas.

Adel Salmanzadeh, “A carpet that we wove together” (2024), edition of 9
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Philippa Emery, “Part One” (2024), edition of 10

Thom Hinton, “Poem 8” (2024), edition of 10

Thom Hinton, “Poem 12” (2024), edition of 10
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Thom Hinton, “Poem 43” (2024), edition of 10

Philippa Emery, “Part Three” (2024), edition of 10

Philippa Emery, “Part Six” (2024), edition of 10