Fragment by Fragment by Lin Charlston

Peat bogs are marshy habitats endangered by human activity and climate change. The ancient underlying soils are in the early stages of coal formation and provide valuable carbon sinks. Fragment by Fragment tells the story of a peat bog dispersing into the wind following the removal of surface vegetation by a devastating fire. The narrative unfolds visually as a concrete poem written in my own semi-legible font “peatbog.” I generated the font from sketches of minute peat fragments transformed into an obscure written language—or signs from the peat bog. The materials of the book embody the contrasting sensations of the peat bog for the reader. The rich black wrap, the peat itself and the green-tissue interleaving, the fragile surface vegetation.