The story is told through a series of removable letters and postcards between the two main characters . . . Griffin Moss is an artist living in London who makes postcards for a living. He is unhappy and lonely, though he is unaware of these feelings. His life is changed forever when he receives a cryptic postcard from Sabine Strohem, a woman he has never met. Like Griffin, she is an artist (she illustrates postage stamps) and comes from a fictional group of small islands in the South Pacific known as the Sicmon Islands (Arbah, Katie, Katin, Ta Fin, Quepol and Typ). The two begin to correspond regularly.
The source material for BHD is two-fold. The first part is comprised of journals, datebooks, artwork, recordings, other pieces of ephemera and "found objects" relating to B's (the protagonist) illness and recovery. The second part continues the story, with the very significant addition of a primary relationship, C. There is a lot of correspondence in the second part, and the fact that we had the original source material (letters, envelopes, often delightfully decorated or illustrated) made me think of Griffin & Sabine.
Ultimately, the BHD story was too big to tell in an art-book like Bantock's works. We did (and by we, I mean Caresse, our graphics designer), however, weave found objects throughout the text in a way that resonates with Bantock's physical letters.
I could see the B&C correspondance published / reproduced in a very similar way to Griffin& Sabine, should The BHD Project ever take off....
