Books > Inconclusive Manual for Unanswerable Questions
A collaboration with Tiana Krähn
What if there was a standard-issue handbook that resolved grief, discord, paradox and ancestral trauma?
As young artists, we dreamed of a world where there were no rules, but in this time of internal & external chaos, we wish there were more definitive answers.
During a particularly difficult year, we traded sketchbooks back and forth, completing each other’s empty hands with objects that communicated our struggles and sought solutions.
We know nothing is simple, but we indulged ourselves with the fantasy that things could be. We knew our drawings, born from questions, would contain all the answers if seen in the right combinations.
So we indexed them with the moral authority of any other handbook grasping at truths, and solved all the world’s problems.
5 x 7”, 84 pages. Letterpress (text) & Indigo Electroink (images) on Mohawk Superfine paper.
Edition of 20 books plus 4 hors de commerce, each with a life-sized gypsum cement hand that cradles it for display in different ways. $950
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Where to view Inconclusive Manual for Unanswerable Questions:
Amherst College, Frost Library, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst, MA.
Baylor University, Special Collections, Waco, TX
The Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Loyola / Notre Dame Library, Baltimore, MD
Pennsylvania State University Libraries, PA
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Tufts University, Tisch Library, Medford, MA.
University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, Miami, FL
University of Virginia Libraries, Special Collections
Washington University in Saint Louis, Special Collections, St. Louis, MO.
Lux Mentis, Booksellers, Portland, ME
Kelmscott Bookshop, Baltimore, MD
Vamp + Tramp, Birmingham, AL