HIJK PRESS
"Love is anonymous. I may love my wife and my children, but the quality of that love is anonymous. Like the sunset, love is neither yours nor mine"
JK
Our Storyhi,jk press opens creativity into the everyday nature of relationship. Offering innovative publications that can enable insightful envisioning. That is, applying questioning unlike anything else encountered before. Here the enquiry is essentially ourselves, with attention that, like nature, is always present. No one can tell you about yourself; with the psyche, there is no authority, leader or guide. In this first instance, only yourself.
ANON : Photobook as Questioning
"Can it be asked what is not memory and by direct association what is questioning: is the sense of question as affection, the sense of affection active, as Nature unbound?"
HIJK Press presents our debut publication: ANON : Photobook as Questioning. A visual and textual inquiry into the psyche, identity, and our unmediated relationship with nature.
Strands as ANON
IDENTITY AS CHALLENGE
The real challenge of not having , feelings of not getting. Always psychologically wanting and the internal separating and conflicts, that this identification brings. Is there presently, looking at self, offering not old but always entirely new. Totally new, that thought-feelings personal accumulating cannot have?
VISUAL ENQUIRY
A totally different consideration of non-verbal, not having, not knowing, open questioning where freely seeing is linked to immediate inner and outer investigation and learning. What might an unnamed exploration unfold as?
SILENCE AND SPACE
Enabling self to consider differences without difference in itself. Present pondering, un-dividing. Wherein questioning’s apparent separating is really not knowing and quietly, spatially and fittingly, unifying. When beauty spontaneously manifests, is there speechlessness, silence, attending? Self, momentarily suspended, with nothing experiencing, as nothing’s momentarily, totally present. Unable to experience is experience, apparently unable yet attentatively, deeply timeless.
ART OF NEGATION
The careful sensitivity of not knowing, an under-recognised attending, ordinarily presently unconsidered. Herein exploring as a mirror of total relationship where, given the paradox of language (the description is not the described), relationship is for, as everything and also completely, affectionately, spontaneously nothing.
“To be personal is to be in want, which is the expression of incompleteness.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti