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No More Land West

Josh Schaedel

Photographs often have more than dualities, they have multiplicity. They slip in and out of control, constantly appropriated for the message at hand, holding together the fabric of reality with the thinnest of threads, and then breaking the moment its phenomenon is interrupted by mediation. Control of the messages behind them lays in the hands of those who touched them last. As images disseminate into the public, the fantasy of our reality and their depictions fades, as the sun bleaches them out laying bare their construction. The machine driven at a pace no one but the elite can follow leaves all else chasing. Behind it is a wake more violent than any rock to a window. The machine is calculating and relentless, like a rising tide and the summer sun. The sun setting, reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues and purples. Images now become walls that divide, primed for projected frustration. The camera infinitely is self digestive. This project is made in dedication to my father and my step father, one dark one light, one straight and one not. All proceeds from the sale of the shirt and tattoo edition will be donated to https://blacktrans.org/about-us/

All images shot around The Pike in Long Beach 6-15-20

Edition of 50

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Untitled Fixed

Josh Schaedel

The piece by Josh Schaedel began as a photograph of a surprisingly realistic looking repair of a broken tail light, made entirely out of colored tape, which was shot in a restaurant parking lot. While the final image, recorded on a DSLR was exhibited in print, a snapshot taken with a phone and shared to Instagram went viral, picked up first by photography accounts, then spread quickly to a surprisingly broad range of users, companies, and geographic locations. With each re-posting, the image took on the meaning projected by its user, and generated conversations colored by that context. Here, the apparatus of photography, including its technology and means of dissemination, is used as an opportunity to curate work through the filter of re-presentation offered by Instagram and the screenshot. The complete body of work took the form of a 171 page phone-sized book, which chronicles the re-posts and commentary over the course of a year.

171 Pages, 4”x6”, Perfect Bound, Edition of 50

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THE 13:20 MOVEMENT

Ian James

A manic deep dive into spiritual technology. Ian James’s photographs of healing technologies meander through metaphysical pilgrimage sites of the New Age. Time is reframed and seen as a technology unto itself. The book functions as a component to the artist’s upcoming exhibition Rainbow Brain of Timeship Earth.

32 Pages, 5.5”x8”, Spiral Bound, Edition of 50

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