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BITS AND BOOKS<br />
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The images are extraordinary. Graffiti artists<br />
become part of their paintings; a flame-haired<br />
hipster lays camouflaged against a tiled Tokyo<br />
stairway; a woman becomes part of a ragged cliff<br />
edge; teenagers merge into a messy bedroom<br />
floor, strewn with records and Rizla. There’s no<br />
computer trickery. No CGI (Joseph describes<br />
knitting as ‘the ultimate analogue process’); just<br />
the visual intrigue created by Nina’s meticulous<br />
knitting and Joseph’s careful camera angles.<br />
‘I love this kind of attention to the absurd,’ writes<br />
Norman Cook (aka Fat Boy Slim), who appears<br />
(or rather disappears) in the book, against a<br />
six-metre Acid House smiley face, ‘Right up my<br />
street.’ Ours too. Poring over the images offers a<br />
soothing diversion from our increasingly digital<br />
world: equal parts homespun labour of love and<br />
mind-bending marvel of patience.<br />
Lizzie Lower<br />
£12.95, hoxtonminipress.com<br />
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