A new collections of essays and poetry by Kealey Boyd, Sommer Browning, Salma Ahmad Caller, Ad?le Cassigneul, Elaine Fenney, and William Max Nelson commenting on the work of artist Daisy Patton.
BROKEN TIMES MACHINES centers its lens on artist Daisy Patton. It is Daisy's work that provides impetus for this written conversation: her art and her activism draw authors forward, compelling them to write with freedom and intention about memory, erasure, decay, disappearance, pattern and ornament, maximalism and minimalism, and women, whose stories, against all odds, prevail.
Each spread in this volume is treated as a facet within a series of pages. Designer Joshua Gamma dances with the conventions of books: toying with typeface size, attribution hierarchies, and the sanctity of images to direct attention to the systems at work in this ancient and everlasting format where knowledge accrues meaning and value.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Collaboration. Art. Women's Studies.