144 pages, wrap around soft cover with open (Swiss) binding
Full colour throughout with spot colour (fluorescent orange) to cover
A QR code on the inside back cover links to a web page with a description of the book
which includes a list of sources, notes etc
The images and texts in The Fragment Corpora include a variety of seemingly random elements referencing aerial views, coding, psychological tests, allegories, art history, astronomy, poetry, micro and macro environments, images of wholeness, fragmentation and the mathematical sublime.
Early collections of knowledge about the world, such as libraries and encyclopaedias also include Cabinets of Curiosities. These collections prefigured the museums of modern times, when collectors began to favour taxonomies based on science and history. The digital world, in which we can include AI, is perhaps the most recent episode in this story of ‘completist’ projects which attempt to lay out the world before us.
The book embraces the limitations of such attempts to construct meaningful images of the world we inhabit, acknowledging the optics through which such descriptions are necessarily determined.
The Fragment Corpora seeks to expand the notion of the book into something which can be experienced in a three dimensional space. The pages of the book variously represent projections, prints, lightboxes, screens and online presentations and ultimately a large language model (LLM), currently in development.
The Fragment Corpora (Book) is published by PURE LAND PRESS
ISBN: 978-0-9564105-7-3
Price: £15 + Postage
Printed by JAK Printers, Mumbai, India
Published 8th March 2026 in the UK
Available in India from:
https://store.press-works.info/
allan@pureland.co.uk / 020 7831 7094
All images and text Allan Forrester Parker