Beyond Borders – Isabel Miquel Arqués in dialogue with Virginia Woolf is the second book of the Beyond Borders trilogy in which I engage in a conversation with three female icons who have always been part of my artistic universe: Karen Blixen, Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe.

I discovered Virginia Woolf when I  read To the Lighthouse at the age of sixteen. My  admiration for Woolf’s unconventional thinking and groundbreaking writing has accompanied me ever since. As a visual artist working with photography, I am  fascinated by Woolf’s pictorial writing which herself qualifies as ‘post-impressionist, cubist, and sometimes even fauvist’.  

This book is divided into nine ‘waves’ – referring to Virginia Woolf’s most experimental novel, The Waves –, each wave representing a different chapter in the writer’s life. Such as Woolf, I try to tell a visual story by following a rhythm rather than a narrative.

The images created by me  in response to Woolf’s writing are accompanied by quotes from the latter’s books and diaries : an intimate and intriguing conversation between both of us unfolds.