
Vis Absoluta: A Human's Tale
- Publisher
- Self-published
- Year
- 2026
- Specifications
- Spiro-bound handmade softcover half wrapped in folded newspaper
64 pages
Poetry booklet included
First edition
Newsprint wrap printed with a newspaper article and a prisoner ID
An ongoing project about the photographer's brother's PTSD, intergenerational trauma, survival and resilience. Trauma runs through the family for at least three generations: her grandfather Yannis was a Greek prisoner of war and slave labourer in Mauthausen concentration camp who survived but never told his story, and her brother Yannis survived a horrific accident in the Devil's Cave, where his best friend fell to his death. The book revisits fragments of their story. The facts, a newspaper article and a prisoner ID, are printed on newsprint wrapped around the main book, paper that will eventually wriggle and dissolve, and what remains are memory, emotion and myth: caves, family archives, Sisyphus, Orpheus and Eurydice, dendrites, trees, owls and snakes. A poetry booklet of observational notes rooted in Cretan village culture is included.