Submerged Time
Five one-of-a-kind books 2004, each with couched poems from Sprachgitter by Paul Celan: third to fifth book on handmade light green paper in portfolio
30 x 42 cm
1. Book: Really Spun Never,
text from Paul Celan's linguistic lattice, made of fine sugar cane paper, 14 blue handmade sheets with scoopings, drawing, watercolour and etching,
39 pages, 30 x 42 cm
2. Book: An eye open,
couched text from Paul Celan's linguistic grid, 14 watermarked sheets each with drawing,
40 pages, 30 x 22 cm, one of a kind, in the Marbach Literary Archive
3. Book: Jacob's Voice,
couched poem by Paul Celan, drawing, watercolour, 14 watermarked sheets
4.Book: Voices,
couched poem by Paul Celan,
14 sheets of watermarks, scooped drawing, watercolour
5.Book: 2004 No voice, couched poem by Paul Celan,
14 sheets watermark, scooped drawing, watercolour
Immersed time means the procedures of etching and creating watermarked sheets and going into landscapes and emerging after a period of immersion. "Perhaps it is fair to say that Beisinghoff's sheets give words a new semantics beyond language. They transfer the literature they encompass into a new quality characterised by ambivalence rather than subordination." Friederike Schmidt Möbus, 2004
2004, Paul Celan - ten poems
from Sprachgitter,
ten colour etchings à la Hayter
on Hahnemühle handmade paper
eleven transparent sheets, hand
set and letterpress by Emilio Sdun
Edition of 20, Köhler portfolio
35 x 40 cm
