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THE ICHTHYOMANIAC

Frantic's Logbook of pictures of fishes
real ones, logos, signs, fishes in art......
320 pictures from wherever Frantic traveled in 2006
13 x 30 cm - 84 pages - hard cover
2006, 69 signed copies
60 euros - 85 US $ - 55 UK pds






AN OBSESSION WHICH STARTED ONE EVENING WHEN CROSSING A BRIDGE IN SEOUL.
HUGE FISHES WERE PAINTED AND WERE ILLUMINATED BY THE STREET LIGHTS.
IT WAS CHINESE NEW YEAR'S EVE AND WE WERE WALKING TO THE SUPERMARKET.
ONE MONTH BEFORE I MOVED TO AN ISLAND..
FROM MY WINDOW I COULD SEE THE WAVES FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AT MY FEET..
DAY IN, DAY OUT, I WOULD STARE AT THE WATER, SEEING IT CHANGE IN MOODS AND COLOURS..
ONLY WATER WAS NOW BETWEEN ME AND SEOUL.. ONLY IF I WAS A FISH I COULD CROSS THIS BARRIER.
AT THAT TIME IN SEOUL IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO RECONCILIATE WITH THE FISH..
TIME TO CONFRONT AND CONQUER THE FISH.. TIME TO BECOME FISH..
THIS IS MY LOGBOOK OF ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FISH SINCE THEN.










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Francis Van Maele
Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland