Sweet Pie Press ~Germany
(Daniela Deeg)

Forgot to Return
By Daniela Deeg
Ludwigsburg, Germany: Sweet Pie Press, 1999. Edition of 5.

10.75 x 8 x 2"; 82 pages. Designed in Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Printed in water based screenprinting on Somerset Satin. Accordion structure. Black cloth cover binding and silver foil stamp by the Bookbinding Studio Weiss,Soellingen Germany.

Daniela Deeg: "Based loosely on the tales of the Homeric Odyssey and later reinterpretations, the book is a one hour travel log of a female heroine through the contemporary world. Whereas Homer's description of the story takes ten years and Joyce's version one day, the time element in Forgot to Return is further decreased to a single hour, trying to adjust the content of the story to our contemporary notion of time. The pixilated look of the images resembles pictures on television screens, another tribute to our modern perception of our surrounding. There are basically two layers of text: first excerpts from the original Homeric story, which are corresponding with the second layer of text circling around the question of fairness and honesty. Odysseus was one of the first "hero tricksters" in literature, living on the motto "I can be an honest man after this." The notion of success on one hand is charged with fairness, truth, honesty, and morality. On the other hand there is a tendency to honor only the winner of the game, no matter what it takes."
$1,200