Entrail Troyen

Entrail Troyen is a 2016 artist's book which depicts Couch's 2014 art work in a new form. It is a representation of the intestine in the form of a tube of knitting, but at the same time it stands vertical, confronting us in the world as the material manifestation of intestines themselves (being made from sausage casings and salami skins) as a whole body. Through the slow and careful act of French knitting, the form of the tubular tract is articulated, loop by loop, through each stitch. This looping and stitching connecting previous loops/stitches could be like a metaphor for the research process itself: making connections, making form, making sense, meaning and understanding out of the tangled length of thread, which has been joined together from disparate fragments, collected from a range of sources: a chorizos from meals, as well as collections from friends and colleagues. Double-sided inkjet print on variety of Japanese papers, variety of weights, with salami skin collage and threads, bound in 300gsm Waterford folio with wax seal. 178 x 18.5cm. Limited edition of 25. Collections: Special Collections & Archives at the University of Kent; and Wellcome Library, London