the game was simple. destroy the book’s original form by taking one or all of the sticker pages to the streets and sticking it anywhere you felt that fragment belonged…
for yeehaw. press, there is something special about creating books that require detachment, impermanence, and destruction in order for the book’s existence to be complete, dignified.
fragmentos was our experiment to interactively question the concept of this kind of completion by asking our readers to activate the book by essentially destroying it.
when our readers released the pages from the bind, our publication was complete, a “successful publication” while simultaneously becoming a skeleton in your hands, a void fulfilled.
for those who received the book and did not disperse the pages, they are holding onto a materially completed piece that contains a dormant and tactile idea. a book that has not yet to come to life.
thank you to those of you who took the pages to the street, our favorite library.
more to come. I just gotta get my shit together.
con amor,
ash, poetry slut rodeo queen in charge
fragmentos [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, seis] is one of the most recent works by Guadalajara muralist, Unkle. Acrylic layers of paint and cotton paper on canvas reveal stratifications of time where letter abstractions peek through washes of burnt orange. Blackened broken bits float through the surface… off the canvas and perhaps into the sky if we turn away…
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cotton Paper, Canvas
64 x 46.5 cm, 25 x 18 in
fragmentos [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, seis] es una de las obras más recientes del artista tapatío Unkle. Capas de pintura acrílica y papel de algodón sobre lienzo revelan estratificaciones del tiempo donde abstracciones de letras y signos se asoman a través de una veladura de naranja quemado. Fragmentos rotos y ennegrecidos flotan a través de la superficie del lienzo y tal vez hacia el cielo si nos damos la vuelta…
