We started this series when we were at the Tilting Artists in Residency Program on Fogo Island in Newfoundland in June 2022. Our partnership and collaborations began years before the making of this book. We started by making exquisite corpse drawings while waiting for food in restaurants, and moved on to more complex matters like raising two sons. From the start, whenever we have made our collaborative art pieces, we don’t actually work together in the same space. We work separately, passing work back and forth, without conversation. Perhaps because we’ve known each other for a long time, we find being in this unspoken place allows us to communicate differently. As in any making process, there is something beneath it or within it that we’re trying to get at (or it’s trying to get at us). In this back and forth between our studios, we are thrilled when we discover something unexpected—something that is more than the two of us—emerging.
Available here: A Quiet Book Hardcover – August 1, 2024 • Brickyard-Books