Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - cover image.

 

Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - cover image.

Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - Journal page for 4 March.

Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - Journal page for 8 March.

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Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - Journal page for 2 April.

Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - Journal page for 4 April.

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Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - Journal page for 2 June.

Andrew Stones - 'Left-Handed Book 1991' - Journal page for 5 June.

 

Andrew Stones Left-Handed Book 1991

 

In 1991 I made a journey to Australia. I wanted to resist any easy familiarity with the continent based on notions of shared or historic Britishness. Being right-handed, I decided to keep a journal using only my left hand, filling a page for each day of the visit.

The act was also in memory of a grandmother who, with a pen in each hand, could simultaneously write two instances of her name, one forwards and one reversed, starting at opposite sides of a sheet of paper.

 

 
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