A book of kisses. Michael Dean’s tender, elegiac, angry and funny poem that speaks of that which remains when love is gone. Resonating with anguish and ire, but here and there the language slips, as if misheard through a distance.

After writing ‘Stardust Melody’,* Michel painted his lips black and kissed the entire poem away. Transcribing each word with his kiss so that they could not be read anymore: the text disappears, its language transformed into a physical syntax of love and loss. Returning as a ripped page slipped inside the book.

The book is printed using five different inks, including a ‘deep space black’, to replicate the black ink found on the original artwork. It is bound with an open spine and covered with a loose jacket that is further signed with a kiss.