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Bleeding, Pleading, Cursing by Elliott Stokes
[Book Design, Cover Image, and Foreword]
2020
For this project, I traveled to New Orleans to visit my friend’s studio while he completed his MFA thesis. That project would culminate in this artist’s book we made together with art historian Sarah Richter. During our visit, I photohraphed him and wrote as he cast a giant oil tank in rubber latex to eventually have a massive, flacid, skin with wooden support structure that you could enter. Elliott’s father was a small time oil guy down south and Elliott had a complex relationship with him. Thankful and privileged because of his work, but angry and frustrated by the anthropocene and the environmental degradation he has watched unfold in his lifetime around New Orleans. Given the intimacy of the project we went through boxes of his father old business receipts finding hadn written elements to scan in and curate within the pages of this photgraphy book. I also scanned handwritten journal entries from Elliott, along with his signature to use throughout. From over 100 images I curated a story with Eliiott starting from a voyeuristic view of a dystopian world, like waking up from a dream, culminating in the fire and brimstone of the Mad Max like scenes. His world spealks like a mixture of Robert Frank, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jim Jarmusch, and a William Faulkner novel.
I typeset in Times New Roman and Aktiv Grotesk.
Scanned documents from Elliott’s fathers oil business