WALKING OUT OF SLEEP: encounters with lichen territory
Dublin Core
Title
WALKING OUT OF SLEEP: encounters with lichen territory
Subject
Landscape
Description
a book of multiple layers, that reflect the organism and the environmental conditions that they require to survive
a book of multiple encounters, from the controlled conditions of the herbarium, to wild wanderings
a book that can be read from multiple directions, or viewpoints, starting with science or experience
The book explores one woman’s relationship with Map Lichen and the places that they inhabit. Over a period of two years she travelled to locations across the UK to spend time with the lichen in often remote and challenging terrain. She walked and slept among the lichen, sensitising herself to the elements that these friendly green crusts need to survive. She made photographs and wrote poems. The ‘maps’ guiding her into lichen territory.
Alongside her fieldwork she spent time with displaced lichen. The Natural History Museum in London is home to half a million lichen specimens, looked after by the Curator of Lichens. 120 of these samples are Map Lichen collected across the UK from the 1800s. Each visitor to the collection reviews the files and leaves their own notes, suggestions and new samples… After all science, knowledge and the herbarium itself are not static.
a book of multiple encounters, from the controlled conditions of the herbarium, to wild wanderings
a book that can be read from multiple directions, or viewpoints, starting with science or experience
The book explores one woman’s relationship with Map Lichen and the places that they inhabit. Over a period of two years she travelled to locations across the UK to spend time with the lichen in often remote and challenging terrain. She walked and slept among the lichen, sensitising herself to the elements that these friendly green crusts need to survive. She made photographs and wrote poems. The ‘maps’ guiding her into lichen territory.
Alongside her fieldwork she spent time with displaced lichen. The Natural History Museum in London is home to half a million lichen specimens, looked after by the Curator of Lichens. 120 of these samples are Map Lichen collected across the UK from the 1800s. Each visitor to the collection reviews the files and leaves their own notes, suggestions and new samples… After all science, knowledge and the herbarium itself are not static.
Creator
Tamsin Green
Publisher
manual.editions
Date
2023
Format
Lichen sample packet cover, single signature with three hole pamphlet hand binding.Risograph and EcoTank ink-jet printed on responsibly made papers from waste paper pulp and toxic algae. Print inserts on left-over paper stock.
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
17.5, 24.5, 1
Number of Pages
92
Number of images
47
Edition Size
60 books
Place of Publication
London, UK
Designer
manual.editions
Printer
Risograph: Duplikat, London (UK), Inkjet: by the artist, Epson EcoTank ET-8550
ISBN
ISBN 978-1-8384772-2-6
Website
https://www.tammidori.com
URL Link to project
https://www.manualeditions.com/walking-out-of-sleep
Where to buy
Through the publisher
Citation
manual.editions, “WALKING OUT OF SLEEP: encounters with lichen territory,” Photo Book Cafe Archive, accessed May 1, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/787.