Art Metropole

#16141

Midnight Deer Abstractions

Price

$15.00

Date

0000

Publisher

Small Walker Press

Format

Artists' Books

ISBN

978-1-990208-34-8

Midnight Deer Abstractions is about limitless in-betweens, vast spaces where slight variations contain all the precisions of colour and diction, rendered immediately nebulous. Poetry and painting provide sanctuary where layers of selves are layered with memory and dream, which are in turn layered with creative process. As poet and painter, Knight and Farnsworth are attuned to each other’s practice and the spectral selves their processes create. They invite us to think, read, and look “between foreground and background” for the traces and sketches of identities, whose edits are vague, always disappearing to be retraced, resketched. Just as Knight’s poetry occupies a space between certainty and uncertainty, Farnsworth’s images play with presence and undecidability. Here is “an alphabet a kaleidoscope of brushstrokes / and blurs” that leaves us comfortably, colourfully, wrapped in a riddle: what is the difference between tangerine and clementine?