A postulate on glace. One of the consequences of the digitalization of human culture is the formation of a universal screen on which optical signs (textimages) fleetingly appear in a ceaseless flux, somewhat like a shifting mist. This screen doesn’t exist, but underlies the existence of all sorts of more or less immaterial surfaces before which we see ourselves pass as silhouettes, just as formerly we saw our figures standing out against city walls or the horizon of fields… The hallucination is a substance: it is the optical fluid the gaze sinks into, as much as the color bathing the objects and characters. Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo isolates the distillates of this substance…
Joseph Mouton

Book
Photographs Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo
Foreword Joseph Mouton
Pems Cécile Mainardi
Language French, Spanish & English
Publishers Uroboros-Basilisco, RAI, &  Edizione Albatros
ISBN english version 88-89512 01-6
ISBN Italian version 88-89512-00-8
First edition 2004

Technical specifications
Cover Hard bound
Size 13 x 9 in. (extended 26 x 9 in.)
Extent 164 pages
Copies 1500 (500 in english and 1000 in italian)
Format Landscape
Materials
Ends 200 g. wood free paper
Interior 200 g.  semi matte couché paper & 180 g. wood free paper
Printing
Cover 4c x 0
Ends 1c x 0
Inside 4c x 4c & 1c x 1 c
Binding
Smyth & sawn