Shrines
Symbols of hope, faith, anguish, creativity. Part folk-art, part practical tool for dealing with a crisis. For remembrance of the past and protection from the future.
Street shrines voice a deeply human need for beauty, symbols and ritual in the everyday. They are examples of DIY attitude in action, built by many hands, from everyday materials, answering a creative urge.
Often the strongest feelings find shape in the most ephemeral forms - a clutch of flowers, a string of paper flags, a flickering candle flame, a rag of prayer. Commonplace items, arranged with deliberation and care, form a bridge to worlds beyond our own.
Being both communal and deeply personal creations, these Mexican street shrines are vibrant expressions of pop spirituality and folk culture.
Madre Celestial Zine
Hand-stitched zine
20.3 x 25.4 cm
48 full colour pages on 90gsm uncoated stock
Plus inserts on various papers
Published in two editions:
>> Regular Edition
33 hand-stitched copies, signed and numbered
Sugar paper cover
>> Special Edition
13 hand-stitched copies, signed and numbered
Pearl metallic paper cover
4 additional pages on gold paper
2 x images on pearl paper tipped-in
8 x 10” print on Hahnemuehle Metallic Photo Rag, signed on reverse
Prints
Prints
Archival pigment prints in Positive and Negative
Edition of 33 each, signed and numbered on the frint
25.4 x 30.5 cm
>> Negative Prints
Printed on Hahnemuhle Silk Photo Rag
>> Positive Prints
Printed on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
Available from my shop.
Zine Launch & Exhibition at Photobook Cafe, London
March 2023
Photobook Cafe, 4 Leonard Circus, London EC2A 4DQ
Exhibition at Crossbones graveyard, London
June 2023
Crossbones Graveyard, Union Street, SE1 1SD
part of Bankside Open Spaces Festival
