The starting point for the artist book was a series of existing photographic images that Hendrikse collected.

These images depict moments of otherness, strangeness or of masquerading. Some of the images show how cultures bleed into and influence each other creating new forms. These images were redrawn by the artist using carbon paper.

The publication also contains a text by the German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858 -1918) titled ”The Stranger”. It is one of the first texts (1908) that describes the specific qualities of strangers in general. The text was especially translated for this publication in Bahasa Indonesia and is intersected with notes and thoughts by Paul Hendrikse and Helly Minarti. The typeface was developed for the book by Katja Gretzinger.

Language: English/ Indonesian