I see in the sea nothing except the sea. I don't see a shore. I don't see a dove.

Book release // Live reading event 
March 30, 2015 7-9pm
at The Camera Club of New York

edited by Heather M. O'Brien
designed by Zeynab Izadyar
published by New Draft Collective / Secretary Press (Michi Matter Jigarjian + Libby Pratt )
distributed by Small Press Distribution

with contributions by: Allen Frame / Amin Husain / Nitasha Dhillon / Nicole Antonia Salazar / Malene Dam / Diego Alejandro Sierralta / Felisia Tandiono / Gabriela Salazar / Bridget de Gersigny / Zee De Gersigny / Marina Berio / Carlos Motta / Samira Yamin / Adam Golfer / Ashley Hunt

Through dialogue and reflection, an exhibition which took place at the Camera Club of New York in April 2014, I see in the sea nothing except the sea. I don't see a shore. I don't see a dove. is re-considered.

The document tells us nothing. Let’s begin there. Now, what is the site? Is it here or is it there? How do we tell this story? A conscious choice is made to tell it otherwise—to mull over media, memorial, technology, detention. That which is unseen begins to leak, and slowly we begin to see: blue, white, foam, waves.

The tide is rising. Can we separate art and the way we choose to live? How do we rearrange our desires?