Photographs of mountain paths, taken in 1999 with an SLR camera at Coll de Rates in Spain, are mirrored in two directions in the book – once skyward, once earthward – and refer in a sense to “thinking” and “walking.” The photographs show what the walker sees: a deserted landscape. The text passage from Thomas Bernhard’s story “Gehen” (“Walking”) is letterpress printed on the blue-black triplex images in 24-point bold condensed Futura, at various skewed angles. “If we are walking intensively for a long time deep in an intensive thought, says Oehler, then we soon have to stop walking or stop thinking, because it is not possible to walk and to think with the same intensity for a fairly long period of time.” The butterfly-bound book includes a case with a lid, consisting of two equal-sized (mirror-image) parts that open upward.

20 black and white photographs, triplex-offset printed, hand-set (Futura), letterpress printed, Zerkall mouldmade paper, butterfly binding, embossed cloth-covered boards housed in a paper-covered case with lid (19.5 × 40 × 2.6 cm), 40 pages, 18 × 38.8 cm, 35 numbered and signed copies, Flörsheim 2018
 

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