In the end, Kristen's work is illuminated through obstruction."Īaron Cohick, Text, Image, Writing, Reading, JAB 27: "Things I Wanted to Tell You is driven by the relationships between text and image.To read this book we must move continuously between two discontinuous worlds, two means of representing a world, the world.
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The photographs poetically paced in this volume divulge seasons of the mind that frame a code of jumbled, overwritten thoughts. The obsessive need to write diaristically is glaringly revealed even if the words themselves are unreadable. Kristen has photographed her many diaries and notebooks where compulsive entries are written over the top of one another thereby erasing ideas, thoughts, and emotive feelings through the act of writing.
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Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Things I Wanted To Tell You by Kristen Merola is a project based on the compulsion to free oneself of ideas and thoughts believed to be unproductive, although significant. Case bound in paper over boards with cloth spine. Rochester, New York: Preacher's Biscuits Books, 2010. For fracking over ten thousand gallons of chemicals is mixed with over a million gallons of water and a heavy amount of sand is injected underground to release natural gas deposits." A geothermal power plant has boreholes drilled deep into the ground that converts steam under enormous pressure into energy. Water is a medium to access the core subject, as in the energy mining processes depicted. The results are then digitally scanned to make a new image. "The photographs featured in the book were printed with an inkjet printer on a heavy printmaking paper then water was applied to wash out areas of the ink. Images from The Ground are failures in their own right made to show something of the futility of trying to fix an image on a ground in any permanent way. Western New York Book Arts Center: "The Ground is an essay book including photographs made between 20 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking sites in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, as well as writing that documents failures both personal and historical to access the ground as a source of energy and to grasp its power.
This essay book is about personal and historical failures to access the ground – both literally and metaphorically – as a source of energy and grasp its power." The resulting images are interwoven with a personal essay where Tate recounts a period when he lived in a pastoral part of Pennsylvania now inundated by the natural gas industry.
The photographs were printed with an inkjet printer on heavy printmaking paper and then water was applied to wash out areas of the ink.
Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Tate Shaw's The Ground started with photographs made between 20 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking and former coal mining sites in Pennsylvania. Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2013.ġ2 x 8" 124 pages with 2 gatefolds. We simply accept that analog books are lasting objects but in order to last they call for our continual participation."
My work comes into being through the collaboration of a reader and a book may always be further reenacted, and reinterpreted, and this makes it an ongoing thing. There isn’t a central subject to my work other than a concern for structure and a way of connecting to people through ideas. Tate Shaw: "I make books to directly connect with other people and to learn something about the limits of connectivity. Preacher's Biscuit Books: "Publications reliant on the material book as a metaphor to create meaning in works by visual, sound and language artists."
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