I Will Pay To Make it Bigger

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I Will Pay To Make it Bigger

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Author: Ahren Warner

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781913513580

Date: 5th September, 2024

Publisher: PROTOTYPE PUBLISHING

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You wake up in the footwell of a mid-sized hatchback somewhere on a highway in outer Bangkok. You compile neurotic spreadsheets of the best 'party destinations' in Europe, whilst your work emails pile up without ever being read. You quit your job. You launch a banal start-up. You grieve for a past relationship. You stare endlessly at the waves coming in from a beach in Koh Pha Ngan. You vape intensely. You spend money on feelings, on the performance of your own persona, whilst you observe yourself with a detached sense of horror.i will pay to make it bigger is a novella, by poet and artist Ahren Warner, in which 'you' are the main character. Through text and image - autofiction, docufiction, and just plain fiction - you work your way through a tangle of preoccupations: from what it means to buy enjoyment, to the fragile construction of your own self as a cultural product.i will pay to make it bigger is also a photobook, a collection of images produced whilst living in Thai 'party hostels'. Although these photographs might seem to exist as the documentation of intimate or ecstatic moments, they are in fact quite painstakingly, and artificially, constructed: composited and manipulated from multiple still frames of film footage to produce images that advertise the calculated artifice of their own hedonism, emotion and seemingly raw experience.

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