All photos of the book, and the first video courtesy of Aaron Wessling; second video courtesy of Jason Kaplan.
Rabbit
Self-published, 2023; hardcover, first edition, limited to 100 copies, 136 pages, 9¼”x 12¼”, signed on title page.
Rabbit is a limited-edition facsimile of a one-of-a-kind artist’s book, designed as a photographer’s intimate journal and scrapbook. It features over 100 mostly black and white photographs from extended journeys over the past four decades, including the United States, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
The book contains reproductions of a wide array of personal items and ephemera related to these trips: diary entries, poems, Polaroids, maps, contact sheets, newspaper clippings, found notes and images, and numerous letters and postcards exchanged with family, friends, lovers, and my artistic mentor Robert Frank. In addition, there is an author’s explanatory afterward in the format of a “letter to the reader,” sealed in its own airmail envelope. To recreate the intimate feeling of an original scrapbook, many of these items are separate and distinct objects I have manually trimmed, folded, assembled and bound and attached to the book’s pages.
The project records a meandering, epistolary tale of my rabbit-like wanderings: searching for love and connection, fleeing private demons, trying to disappear down the furthest reaches of a dusty road or jungle river, and hoping ultimately to attain some nirvanic state where I lose myself completely and become one with the world around me. In this sense, the book’s photos should not be viewed so much as a visual record of places or people encountered but as reflections of my state of mind on a very internal journey.
***Please Note: Because each book is finished by hand (as described above; approximate 3 hours of work to finish each copy), please allow up to 5 months after purchasing for the book to be shipped. Thank you for your patience!***
hardcover - $200
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