UNDEAD DARLINGS
The Undead Darlings broadside series makes material Faulkner’s pithy-but-now-cliché idea that writers kill their darlings during the revision process. This series of limited edition broadsides features passages initially included in book manuscripts that were left out of final publication and transforms them into works of visual art in their own right. Dead darlings be damned.
Operating in the way the recording world B-Sides offer listeners gems not included in initial album releases, the series will feature contemporary writers, showcasing previously unpublished poems and prose orts that offer dear glimpses back into the books that they initially belonged to before being edited out.
AMERICAN RUINS
American Ruins is an essay collection-in-progress born from interpretations of what might stand some day as the ruins of American culture. The essays in this series feature an encounter with a ruin–The Titan Missile Museum in Tucson, AZ, A 16th Century Dutch Barn in New York’s Hudson Valley, the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys–and draws connections from these to works of art, expressions of identity, politics, and my personal experiences as a father and artist. The resulting essays are meditations on what is revealed through the traces we leave behind.