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American Shadows (Leather-bound edition)
Leather-bound accordion fold book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$250
American Shadows (Postal Edition)
Artist book
6" x 6" x .5"
2021
$15
American Shadows (Soft cover edition)
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Coronavirus, entry 1
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - First Grave, entry 2
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Armed Militia, entry 3
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Riot Police, entry 4
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Falling Moon, entry 5
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Bathroom Venus, entry 7
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Ganzfeld Effect, entry 8
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75
American Shadows - Summer Cardinal, entry 9
Artist book
7" x 7" x 2"
2021
$75

Set in the spring and summer of 2020, the book is a select timeline of national events and personal anxieties experienced during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis. Each fear is expressed as a dated journal entry, and is paired with a news article published the same day. The two are symbolically connected and reified using shadowgraphy- the art of hand shadow puppets. The fleeting, insubstantial, and ominous nature of shadows acts as a metaphor for the increased instability and isolation of life during the pandemic.