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4 a.m. by Paul Cupido. First edition (2021). Signed and numbered by Paul Cupido to copyright page. No markings.  A haiku from Bashō that forms the central idea of the book 4 a.m.
 
The book is an experience, a journey at 4 a.m., the zone in which the boundaries between the physical and spiritual realms are nearly non-existent. Or more simple: the moment in which the dream world and the real world are overlapping.

This book was printed on artisan Biotope Cotton paper, which was shipped by boat from Japan to Amsterdam. The boutique printers Robstolk are famous for their "skeleton" black, and a frequency modulated raster grid, which makes offset printing look like analogue photographic printing. 4 a.m. was "perfect" Japanese bound with cold glue by Agia Bookbinders, including a belly band with a screen print in matt gold bronze.

Moon woke me up nine times — still just 4 a.m Bashō, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; “Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both,” he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community. This famous haiku from Bashō forms the pivotal theme of Paul Cupido's new book. “I aim to engage with the world with wide-open senses. My work is about the magic moments of life as well as its inconveniences… Through photography, I learned to see and accept the true beauty of the essence of life.” - Paul Cupido

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