Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare I’m surrounded only by gridlines

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

What is objective and what is subjective

The medium suits the story—images hold mystery

and on the value of fiction in our daily lives

using handmade sets

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare I’m surrounded only by gridlinesPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective