Tom Abba

@tomabba.studio

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Director Digital Cultures Research Centre and Pervasive Media Studio Resident. Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something

Screengrab from a google search for 'Widow's Bay. Prompt text reads "Did you mean: the next martha's vineyard and definitely not cursed"
A set of books arranged on a wooden desktop
A book cover, showing a ghostly apparition looming over a medieval city. Probably Turin, but I haven't checked.
The green washed cover of All Tomorrows, showing three humanoid figures, all diverging from a human template, and floating ethereally.
A collaged image of a woman’s face, set against folkloric imagery. The text The Devil’s Sound is picked out in white.
A copy of Discovering Scarfolk correctly categorised as non-fiction
A narrow river runs through overgrown woodland. Leaves fall from the trees.
A collage of a riverbank, doubled through transparent layers of photography
A collection of book like objects inside a burned casing
Meticulously designed pages in indesign that completely lift the layout from the Panther Prophesy, which dates from the 17th century.
Agent Dale Cooper drives into Twin Peaks. It is February 24th, at 11.30AM.
An eleven foot long inflatable tardigrade creature lit from within and lowing to its partner (out of shot).
An eleven foot long inflatable tardigrade creature lit from within and lowing to its partner (out of shot).
A juvenile deer, nibbling on grass
More collage. Honestly, it’s just paper and circles.
Collaged image comprised of torn photocopies arranged in layers. And a circle in the top right.
Screenshot from Facebook, with two books sat on a table and recommendations.
Google serving up a summary of Sandman that can only have been written by an AI with the intellect of a brown paper bag. In a puddle.
A very battered very old typewriter in need of more repair.
A book, lying open with a single line of text on the left hand page and a collaged illustration on the right.
Handmade book with a single text line on the left page, and a collaged image on the right.
An open blank handmade book sat on a wooden table.
Collaged image of a shrouded figure superimposed over a standing stone. A circle surrounds the figure and bisects the stone.
A description of the poet Charles Olson, in florid terms. Including anecdotes about him eating an oil rag, talking for days and putting food in his pockets at dinner parties. Olson also wrote some of the most insightful ideas about language and form that I’ve ever read.
A photo collage of tree roots becoming the branches of a tree inverted and falling again toward a riverbed. In black and white. Can’t really do my own work justice.