A good sign. 2013

2013. A new year. A good sign. Fresh start, new energy, stuff like that. In the nineties we were publishers as well. We didn't do that for a long period. It took too much time and we hardly made a profit. It was fun though and we produced some really nice books. Most of them can be considered as artistbooks. 'Een goed teken' (A good sign) is one of them. It's a poem by J.B.Charles, printed in 35 copies by Martien Frijns.

I loved the poem and together with a friend of mine I used the poem in a piece of music. You can hear it and see it as well. This is a (poor) translation:

That's where the man stopped,

He picked up the object

and held it in front of him

to take a good look at it

he turned it upside down

and back again

and concluded with satisfaction:

this is a good sign.