
Cuneiform
- Publisher
- Bywater Bros. Editions
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN
- 9780920293966
- Specifications
- Softcover
204 pages
7.5 x 5.5 inches / 19 x 14 cm
Lynn Valley 10
Co-published with Presentation House Gallery
Edited by Roger Bywater and Reid Shier
An ongoing compendium of photographs taken on the streets and back alleys of two cities. Each frame depicts the adhesive substrate of a sign, most likely a no-parking notice, missing from the exterior wall of a building. The camera isn't pointed at the ghost-like absences, however; it is the gestural, and perhaps not unintentional, calligraphic glue marks produced by the sign posters who first affixed the notices that draw the eye. Their expressive, and often evocatively beautiful script, is, like a letter chiselled in stone, permanently inscribed in weatherproof caulking or construction glue.