TUSK - 24 Landscape Prints by J. Daniel Abel

Third book of themed landscape prints by J. Daniel Abel. From the Introduction - "My copy of “TUSK” has arrived, and I must say, I find it conceptually stirring as graphically inviting. The blunt directness of this one, the stripped-down, “let’s not beat around the stump” starkness, I find highly inspiring. The minimalism of the theme, which delivers in simple terms that suggest an enormous amount, is a kind of brutalist poetry. The tree corpses are often obscured in some way and in fact, entire landscapes seem to be fading into a murky oblivion, as is the effect of many of your recent images. All seems less about the reclamation of nature than the ultimate futility of the whole effort. What profiteth a tree to haul itself out of the soil to begin with? These are the ruins of civilizations that never were". - Ashley Holt Trade Paperback, 54 pages, Rich B/W - $16