About the Book
The French term for still life- nature morte- translates to "dead nature." The refrigerator is a container not so much for dead nature as nature in limbo; Nature Waiting. A staple of contemporary life, everyone we know has a big cold box in their life; and like anything that we all have, the variations on the theme are endless. How we choose to use it- or not- can reveal volumes about who we are.
Anthropology, allegory, sensory cues, economic indicators, the colors and textures of an unintended, unself-conscious diary- our food represents so much. We look at it every day, but how often do we see it?
So, what do you keep in your fridge? Mustard? A creepy doll? Fourteen gallons of raw milk? Film? Does the dog know to come when you open it? And what, in the end, is left uneaten?
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Additional Categories Fine Art
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 68 - Publish Date: Feb 11, 2013
- Language English
- Keywords refrigerators, evensteve, stephen schaub, fine art
About the Creator
One Week One Book is an experimental series created by artist Stephen Schaub in 2013. Each book was conceived of, executed, and sent to print in the course of a single week. A total of twelve books were made in the series. Documentary in style, they combine a visual wit with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Artist Stephen M. Schaub's works have been described as "art dreaming about itself." In them, rather than experiencing a literal place or a linear story, we encounter something akin to the fragmentation of an emotional memory- or the illogic of a dream. Depicting scenes of unresolved narrative, these images seem to have been subjected to the vagaries of perception and the passage of time. Schaub is an innovator whose works defy classification. In his Vermont studio he combines monumentality of scale with light-sensitive techniques and the presentation of works on paper, to create each singular, unique work of art.