Katelyn-Jane Dunn’s Artist Book “The Weeping Fig” now available for order!

03/28/2026

©︎Katelyn-Jane Dunn / The Weeping Fig

We are now accepting orders for Katelyn-Jane Dunn’s artist book “The Weeping Fig”.

After taking part in the Photobook as Object workshop in 2023, Australian artist Katelyn-Jane Dunn continued to develop her long-term artist book project “The Weeping Fig” under the mentorship of curator Yumi Goto.
In 2025 she joined a residency at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES, where the concept and structure of the work were further refined.
Then, in March 2026, she returned to Tokyo to focus on the final phase of production at Reminders Photography Stronghold, working intensively toward the completion and launch of the book.

“The Weeping Fig” is rooted in the death of her mother, who passed away at the age of fifty-five in 2019, and in the traces she left behind.
Like many mother–daughter relationships, theirs was complex. Yet in the years leading up to her mother’s death, Katelyn felt she was finally reaching toward her—beginning to understand the intense colours and textures that made her life so singular and full.

She obsessively returned to family photo albums, handwritten recipes, scraps of paper and small keepsakes, trying to reassemble her mother from what remained.

Katelyn revisited places of personal significance: Mackay, where her mother last lived; Bundaberg, where she grew up on the family farm and now rests beneath the weeping fig trees. Somewhere between the deep red soil, the rustle of recipe pages, the worn edge of a gold locket and the wings of a magpie, her mother continues to live on.

“The Weeping Fig” is conceived as a vessel for these fragments of memory — a B5-format artist book produced in an edition of 55. Its cloth cover and binding thread are hand-dyed from the berries of weeping fig trees; the pages combine laser printing and inkjet, with a section printed on thin, softly translucent paper. Through each structural and material decision, these memories slowly crystallise into the physical form of the book.

“The Weeping Fig”

In 2019, my mother died at fifty-five.
Like most mothers and daughters, our relationship was complex, but in the years leading up to her death I felt I was finally reaching toward her, beginning to understand the brilliant colours and textures that made her life so singular and full.

There were more stories to hear, more questions to ask, more things left to say.

I obsessively pored over family albums, handwritten recipes, scrap paper, and keepsakes, assembling my mother from what remained.

I returned to places of personal significance: Mackay, her last home, and Bundaberg, where she grew up on the family farm and is now buried beneath the weeping figs.

Somewhere between the deep red soil, the rustle of recipe pages, the worn edge of a gold locket, and the wings of a magpie, my mother lives.

People tell me I sound just like her.

Katelyn-Jane Dunn

About “The Weeping Fig”

・Edition of 55 (Hand-numbered & signed)
・Photography, text, binding: Katelyn-Jane Dunn
・Size: 185mm × 261mm × 32mm
・Pages: 172 pages
・Weight: Approx. 600g
・Language: English
・Price: 15,400 JPY (Tax included, shipping extra)

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After payment is confirmed, we will begin preparing your order for shipment. Please note that your order may not be shipped until late May.
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