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To end this page: a short English summary, (please note the book uses the rare Dutch Language, barely any English):
This book (in English: ‘not the look for good friendships just like the dogs’ tongues’) is a series of short stories that touch, scrape and cut each other so often that it sometimes seems like a novel.
At times it could also have been a collection of poems with pictures. Here time is not linear and only the horse has a name.
This book mixes visual art, science, spirituality and nature. Coppens added her language, humor and other people’s photography to this already rich blend.
The Fibonacci sequence forms the backbone of this book: it determines the total number of pages and the number of available pages per protagonist.
The main characters are the sum of their predecessor, even if they do not know it themselves, just like the numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.
34 different types of discarded packs of pink paper from across Europe were used to produce the book. Some papers have waited decades until they found their destination in Coppens’ book. The book is produced entirely locally, within three kilometers of Coppens’ studio home.
It was printed by the Amsterdam printer De Stencilzolder and bound by the Amsterdam binder Boekbinderij Hennink.
This project shows that there is (visual) poetry in ennobling finches, an embroidered tree, a fibroid, a lesbian seagull, not being able to live up to your name and trying to live under the radar in a world that is full of surveillance cameras.
That Aristotle was a Buddhist, the African duodecimal system, how you can sleep like a 9 and that you can assign an exact number of pages to the characters in a book.
In addition, this book is about the different forms of love and friendship. Friendship with non-human animals, friendship with things, friendship with clothes and friendship against my better judgment.
Would you like to know more? Have a look at this page [in Dutch]