FEN

The metaphysics of Dollmaking
Stillness, discipline, devotion

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I enter myself
by offering him my stillness

HELD

A Maker shapes a Doll
through attention.
A Doll answers with stillness.
Between them, form begins to hold.

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Cover of HELD by FEN – The Metaphysics of Dollmaking, a book on devotion and transformation

HELD
The Metaphysics of Dollmaking
the shape that waits in silence to be known
By FEN

To be arranged is chosen.
To remain arranged is devotion.

HELD is a devotional system.
A closed world with its own physics.

Stillness, correction, use, silence, vanishing and return move as forces through one architecture.

Use is not not the moment of contact.
Use is the decision to remain readable.

Limited First Edition · 401 pages · 156 × 234 mm · Printed on Munken Lynx uncoated  · €59 worldwide

Digital Edition
· €29

Enter HELD

CORE

The central system of HELD.
Form as devotion.
Attention as instrument.

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Cover of CORE by FEN – The metaphysical centre of Dollmaking.Law, sequence and containment.

CORE
Nothing is mine, All is received
vanishing into form
by FEN

The CORE section from HELD released as a standalone volume.

The metaphysical centre of Dollmaking.
Law, sequence and containment.

For those drawn to surrender as discipline.
To objectification with tenderness and severity.
To a form that holds.

Nothing is mine.
All is received.

Limited First Edition · 161 pages · 145 × 210 mm · Munken Lynx · €32 worldwide

Digital Edition · €14

COMING IN summer

Gloss Ontology

Pink as wound.
Pink as surface.
The colour of being opened.

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Cover of Gloss Ontology by FEN – Pink as sweetness and exposure, stain, appetite and wound.

Gloss Ontology
Pink as wound and surface
the colour of being opened

A gloss ontology in fragments and invocations.
Pink as sweetness and exposure, stain, appetite and wound.

Sweetness that overflows.

Limited First Edition · 64 pages · 120 × 180 mm · Saddle stitched · Pink stock with white print · Munken Lynx  · €18 worldwide

Digital Edition
· €9

COMING IN SUMMER

The page takes you

HELD is calibration.
Reading is submission.

ENTER HELD
Devotional architectures
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