Tom Alexander
United Kingdom
www.tomalexander.org
IG: @tomlxndr

Ten Regrets
2024
Card, paper and glue
0.78 x 3.54 x 1.8

Ten Regrets is a rumination on past mistakes and how we cling to them. The book is presented as a series of rolled up scrolls of paper, presented in a manufactured box like a cigarette packet. Each paper demonstrates a regretful incident from the past, with blank spaces for the reader to personalise it to their own experience. Once the reader has added their own details, they are invited to roll the paper back up and burn it. The hope is that by engaging in this process, the reader is able to renegotiate how they feel about these regrets. By packaging it in the same way as a pack of cigarettes, it perhaps also questions whether regrets are themselves an addiction, one that we might be better off without.