Mountain of Salt is an expansive series of text-based collage works by Bindi Vora that maps the entangled language of pandemic, post-Brexit Britain, and Black Lives Matter through found photographs, digital shape collages, and phrases drawn from news articles, press conferences, and social media.
About This Book
At its core, Mountain of Salt is a book about the power of language to construct — and constrain — historical understanding. Vora assembles found photographs and digital collages alongside fragments of public speech to trace the ideological and political currents of three overlapping moments: the early pandemic, the post-Brexit era, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The work operates at the fault line between the personal and the political, the individual utterance and the collective narrative. For practitioners working at the intersection of visual culture, graphic design, and image-text practice, this is a substantial work of documentary collage that asks how language shapes the historical record.
Key Features
- 448 pages of text-based collage works combining found photography, digital shape collages, and appropriated language
- Works by artist Bindi Vora
- Published by Perimeter Editions, ISBN 9781922545190
What You'll Discover
- How appropriated language from news media, press conferences, and social media becomes raw material for visual and conceptual art-making
- The ideological and political tensions of three concurrent historical movements — the early pandemic, post-Brexit Britain, and Black Lives Matter — rendered through collage
- The productive friction between micro and macro scales: individual phrases and images set against broad cultural and political movements
- A sustained investigation into how linguistic frameworks accumulate to define — and distort — historical eras
About the Author
Bindi Vora is the artist behind the Mountain of Salt series, a body of work centred on text-based collage practice that draws on found photography and appropriated public language. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 448
- Dimensions: 150 x 190 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922545190
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists, graphic designers, and visual culture researchers interested in image-text practice, documentary collage, and the politics of language in contemporary history.