Panic Folds is a mini book I created for this year’s Small Publishers’ Fair at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. The book project was conceived as part of my MA study in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway.
It consists of one long poem over 8 pages with a pull out origami poem and is concerned with holistic anxiety treatments.
Opening the book, you are confronted with handwritten panic symptoms. The book demands a physical interaction with these lines as you fold through them and, through calming origami gestures, transform them into an origami swan (see video below). The rest of the book, through instructive yoga language, walks you through the yoga “swan pose”. This is situated alongside meditations on the body as it confronts its need for calm.
Printed on ivory card and perforated paper, hand bound with glue and thread.
There are a few of these left. £2. Email chloemproctor@gmail.com. SOLD OUT
Chloe Proctor 
[…] from my mini artists book, Panic Folds. Filmed by Steven Fowler for the Small Publishers Fair, 7th November […]
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