FAILED VIEWS
2020
Ed of 50
8x6 inches, saddle stitched binding. 40 pages with 34 color and black & white images.
Archival pigment print (with attached googly eyes :) tipped onto the cover and loose photo tucked into the back of the book.
15 color and 19 black and white illustrations
ISBN 978-0-9897802-1-6
Failed Views combines photographs of—or representing—nature. While the book is titled, Failed Views, it is this failure, either in the attempt to simulate nature or in nature being thwarted by itself, that makes these scenes worth considering. This book continues my use of humor as a way to engage the viewer as evidenced in previous projects such as Bird Watching and Book of Trees. Books allow the viewer to enter into another world for a while and now feels like a good time to offer a humorous and peculiar experience of landscape.
