I’m very glad to be a included on the wonderful new blog Golden Aged. It’s always a source of happiness for me when people learn about my aunties, whether it be from my photographs, stories about them, or the things they made. Yesterday a woman at a store spent several minutes holding and admiring a hat auntie Lucia made for me. For a moment, in the middle of Manhattan, I felt like I was back at the village.
Goodbye Ranch is selling an edition of my altered book.
Signed and numbered variable edition of 13
Materials: Used paperback book, lace, ribbon.
“Alicia cringed at the thought of a bachelorette party at a male strip joint. But when the spotlight came on, she felt a surge of unbidden desire. On stage was the man of her fantasies. Tony knew what he did to women. He knew exactly why Alicia kept her eyes lowered…”
But none of this matters.
Humorously diverging from her established practice, Nadia Sablin has rendered a worn, romance novel useless. Reverse side-sewn, this altered book now locks within it a steamy story of social class and sexual power. Nadia employs cliches of femininity to great effect, flirting with – yet transcending – pure kitsch through evocative intervention. Transformed, the object now manifests unspoken desire and secret pleasure.
Specially commissioned for Goodbye Ranch, it is recommended that collectors keep this work unseen, perhaps hidden in your nightstand with other personal items.
I found this photograph at my parents house while looking through some old boxes of negatives and prints. My friend shot this portrait of us in August of 2000, emulating Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
By Tim Wilson.
