George Booth-Cole’s The Ground Escapes Through The Mass George Booth-Cole explores fragmentation, movement, and material trace through a tactile sequence of images where bodies and abstract shapes merge together.

It is a powerful artist book documenting life in an informal riverside settlement on the edge of the city and the abrupt violence of its erasure. Through intimate observation of daily routines, makeshift homes, and personal objects, Booth-Cole captures a community shaped by resilience and precariousness. When the settlement is evicted and destroyed ahead of the Olympics, what remains is a field of debris, clothes, photographs and broken furniture - turning the book into a haunting record of displacement, visibility, and what persists after people are forced to disappear. 

Softcover
44 pages, 28 × 40 cm
Self-published, 2025
Screenprint cover