Golden Pavilion Notebook - Barbara Balfour I Love Shopping invites its

I Love Shopping invites its readers to inhabit a world just like ours

then returned to the street before being recycled or taken

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each a distinct composition of images that drift between abstraction and the familiar

Iannis Xenakis

Golden Pavilion Notebook - Barbara Balfour I Love Shopping invites itsOstensibly about Kinkaku ji, the golden pavilion located in Kyoto, Japan, this artists book is at the same time a reflection on impermanence: nomenclatural, architectural, familial. Balfours connection to this pavilion is inextricably linked to her late fathers documentation of it in slides, dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s. As a print based artist fascinated by the dynamic between the original and the copy, with the copy not being