Some fully formed, others in a state of becoming, hands and feet and their supports. Cast and recast, copied and recopied, rubber gloves, ur-feet, the feet of apes. Fragments that represent a whole, these outermost extremities can stand in for humans. The hands and feet of ancient ancestors, present selves, future monuments.
The supports extend us. Stands on stands, feet on tables, feet on shelves. A support can be ideological, structural, architectural. A support can be a matrix used to display objects in an exhibition. And sometimes supports are simply clothes on skin, or shoes on feet.
Hands and Feet and Their Supports is the result of six years of collecting and assembling images related to a show of the same name that happened in 2018 at Cloaca Projects in San Francisco. The book consists of reference images, found photographs, scans, magazine clippings, .jpgs, installation documentation, and collages organized around a strict but invisible supporting grid. The pages were printed on a digital press, and the collating, sewn binding, and screen printed covers were all done by hand one book at a time.
Softcover, 184 pages, digital press, black and white and color, construction paper, two color screen printed covers with flaps, hand sewn binding, 11 x 8.5 in., edition of 175, 2024. -Publisher
