"Oligarchy & Persimmons" is a sentiment of stillness. The book is comprised of chronologically ordered images captured on a Canon IXUS 65, cropped to form new compositions. They document my first visit to Canada's East Coast; where I resided in Québec City for one month, visited Montreal twice & stayed with my Mom in her New Glasgow home.
As a body, it represents a cycle of relocation & adjustment in a past, present & future home concurrently. Colour, form & texture are focal elements in lieu of the initial subjects; lingering on the details that comprise of place.
Home cannot be limited to a tanget space alone, as it embellishes all corners of life. In its purest form; home is hopeful, safe, grounding, vulnerable--it can be found or gifted whenever it is felt.
12 copies were produced as pocket books [4.25" x 8.75"], 2023.
The reworked edition of "Oligarchy & Persimmons is hand-bound using a punch, needle & thread. These pages have been sacrificed from an existing copy of the original reproduction--held between 2 sheets of brushed aluminum, complete with a woven mohair spine.
The braided bookmark extends to 5'7" & is adorned with a pearl trinity; mirroring my height & silver nose piercing.
This structure is symbolic of my body & absorbed experience, expanding on the original concepts which inspired the book. An unpierced shell belonging to the series "If you care, know they'll listen." is depicted on page 311. My intention, when crafting this hardcopy, was to bridge the two projects in a manner more obvious to the perceiver. This has been accomplished through material; sharing the same mohair strands, pearls & metal which is worn by the shells. 2024.
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