Signed; Paul Cupido - Drifting Stones - 2025
Opens 11:00
Starting bid
€ 1
Add to your favourites to get an alert when the auction starts.
Catawiki Buyer Protection
Your payment’s safe with us until you receive your object.View details
Trustpilot 4.4 | 127823 reviews
Rated Excellent on Trustpilot.
Description from the seller
Drifting Stones, signed by Paul Cupido and limited to 500 copies, it was sold out in pre-order...
In Drifting Stones, Paul Cupido expands his visual meditation on impermanence, interweaving image, memory, and emotion through the elusive lens of Mu, the Japanese philosophical concept of emptiness as fertile space. The stones in question are neither fixed nor heavy, but suspended in motion: symbols of transience, trapped adrift between gravity and liberation.
Cupido's photographs in this series are perceived as whispers from another world. They don't document, they dissolve. Blurry edges, soft focus, fleeting silhouettes: each frame is a pause, a respite, an invitation to surrender to the present. These images glow with the understanding that nothing lasts, and in that very truth lies a serene and aching beauty.
Amplifying this meditative journey is an original soundtrack by electronic composer Pawel Pruski. Known for his immersive ambient soundscapes, Pruski fuses modular synthesis, field recordings, and algorithmic patterns to create sonic worlds that feel simultaneously scientific and deeply human. His music doesn't accompany Cupid's images; it floats among them, reflecting their logic of drift, chance, and emotional depth.
Drifting Stones is more than a photobook. It is a sensorial dialogue between two artists who understand the poetry of disappearance. A space where sound becomes light and light becomes silence. It doesn't ask for answers, but for attention.
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Drifting Stones, signed by Paul Cupido and limited to 500 copies, it was sold out in pre-order...
In Drifting Stones, Paul Cupido expands his visual meditation on impermanence, interweaving image, memory, and emotion through the elusive lens of Mu, the Japanese philosophical concept of emptiness as fertile space. The stones in question are neither fixed nor heavy, but suspended in motion: symbols of transience, trapped adrift between gravity and liberation.
Cupido's photographs in this series are perceived as whispers from another world. They don't document, they dissolve. Blurry edges, soft focus, fleeting silhouettes: each frame is a pause, a respite, an invitation to surrender to the present. These images glow with the understanding that nothing lasts, and in that very truth lies a serene and aching beauty.
Amplifying this meditative journey is an original soundtrack by electronic composer Pawel Pruski. Known for his immersive ambient soundscapes, Pruski fuses modular synthesis, field recordings, and algorithmic patterns to create sonic worlds that feel simultaneously scientific and deeply human. His music doesn't accompany Cupid's images; it floats among them, reflecting their logic of drift, chance, and emotional depth.
Drifting Stones is more than a photobook. It is a sensorial dialogue between two artists who understand the poetry of disappearance. A space where sound becomes light and light becomes silence. It doesn't ask for answers, but for attention.
Seller's Story
Dartbooks is a specialized photography bookshop based in Barcelona, dedicated to photobooks, rare and out-of-print editions, and historically significant publications. With a strong focus on Japanese photography, Dartbooks was founded to provide continuity to a field that requires depth, expertise, and careful curation.
The bookshop was established after the closure of Kowasa, a landmark reference for photography books in Spain. Its disappearance left a clear gap for photographers, collectors, and institutions in need of a space with a serious and knowledgeable approach to the photobook. Dartbooks emerged in response to that need, not as a replacement, but as part of the natural evolution of a cultural ecosystem.
Dartbooks operates with a curatorial mindset, shaped by long-term engagement with photography and book collecting. The project functions as a book hunting platform for collectors, professionals, and libraries worldwide, and also provides advisory support to other bookshops seeking to develop coherent and specialized photography collections.
The catalogue includes new publications, rare and out-of-print titles, monographs, retrospectives, self-published works, signed copies, and editions produced directly by photographers through their own imprints. The selection reflects a sustained commitment to photography as a form of visual narration, where images construct meaning beyond text.
Although rooted in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona, Dartbooks serves an international audience. Its community includes collectors, professionals, and institutions from France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and beyond, both through the physical space and the online platform.
Dartbooks understands the photobook not merely as an object of consumption, but as a cultural artifact that documents artistic practices, historical contexts, and personal visions. The bookshop functions simultaneously as a place of discovery, an archive in constant growth, and a point of connection between photographers, publishers, and readers.
Details
Number of Books
1
Subject
Photography
Book Title
Drifting Stones
Author/ Illustrator
Signed; Paul Cupido
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2025
Height
23 cm
Edition
1st Edition, Limited edition
Width
17 cm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
iikki books
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Signed by author
Number of pages
96
