A Walk on Cape Cod
Images by Cole Barash
Text by Eileen Myles
The intricately bound collection provides a modern lens into the daily walks of Henry David Thoreau. Myles’ words and Barash’s images narrate the 32 miles of Cape Cod shoreline with focus and creative depth. 170 years after Thoreau did it and wrote about it and though like him they chronicle the flora fauna shoreline ocean people dogs ghosts thoughts feelings sand collapsing houses sculptures wonder pain sound color etc. Cole and Eileen's versions are something oblique to his and less linear, less singular, granular or more like a palimpsest and with depth like that, like sediment, dissembling, grains of sand, fog, photographic grain, grain from the Riso, bark fibers in the paper, trees already the paper, wood covers…
8.5 x 10.25 in.
160 pages
48 photographs
white oak ply covers
printed & bound by hand by NECK press, Austin Texas.
in an edition of 200
Images by Cole Barash
Text by Eileen Myles
The intricately bound collection provides a modern lens into the daily walks of Henry David Thoreau. Myles’ words and Barash’s images narrate the 32 miles of Cape Cod shoreline with focus and creative depth. 170 years after Thoreau did it and wrote about it and though like him they chronicle the flora fauna shoreline ocean people dogs ghosts thoughts feelings sand collapsing houses sculptures wonder pain sound color etc. Cole and Eileen's versions are something oblique to his and less linear, less singular, granular or more like a palimpsest and with depth like that, like sediment, dissembling, grains of sand, fog, photographic grain, grain from the Riso, bark fibers in the paper, trees already the paper, wood covers…
8.5 x 10.25 in.
160 pages
48 photographs
white oak ply covers
printed & bound by hand by NECK press, Austin Texas.
in an edition of 200
Images by Cole Barash
Text by Eileen Myles
The intricately bound collection provides a modern lens into the daily walks of Henry David Thoreau. Myles’ words and Barash’s images narrate the 32 miles of Cape Cod shoreline with focus and creative depth. 170 years after Thoreau did it and wrote about it and though like him they chronicle the flora fauna shoreline ocean people dogs ghosts thoughts feelings sand collapsing houses sculptures wonder pain sound color etc. Cole and Eileen's versions are something oblique to his and less linear, less singular, granular or more like a palimpsest and with depth like that, like sediment, dissembling, grains of sand, fog, photographic grain, grain from the Riso, bark fibers in the paper, trees already the paper, wood covers…
8.5 x 10.25 in.
160 pages
48 photographs
white oak ply covers
printed & bound by hand by NECK press, Austin Texas.
in an edition of 200