Triptych

by Alexander Booth

This book is tripartite: the first section - Roman Hours - is a collection of minimalist mourning songs, and is located almost exclusively in Italy; applying the Delaunays’ definition of Cubism as simultaneous contrast the central section - The Little Light That Escaped - explores metaphorical and literal dislocation against the backdrop of the Mediterranean, twinned with Berlin, no Shelleyan “paradise of exiles” but something darker; and the third section - Insulae - is a series of rooms remembered, from cities that have played an important role in my adult life, primarily Rome and Berlin, but also from further afield now: Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, DC: a memory of architecture an architecture of memory.

76 pages

Published January 1, 2021