Why must the mounted messenger be mounted? (2022/2023 second edition) by Lucas Blalock offers an expanded meditation on the artist’s twenty-year involvement with photography. In it, Blalock charts the development of his photographic ideas as they run alongside a tangled web of accidents, influence, romance, anxiety, and work. It is a book about coming of age with a preoccupation alternately in full bloom and on its last legs. The volume also reproduces many of Blalock's own photographs and artworks by his peers and influences. This title is also translated to Mandarin, published by us and presented by Stasis Space.