MIND DUST by Zin Taylor
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13.5 × 20.5 cm, 20 pages, 14 black & white plates, softcover
Kodoji Press, Baden 2023, ISBN 978-3-03747-122-7
Retail price CHF 15,00 / Wholesale price CHF 9,00
13.5 × 20.5 cm, 20 pages, 14 black & white plates, softcover
Kodoji Press, Baden 2023, ISBN 978-3-03747-122-7
Retail price CHF 15,00 / Wholesale price CHF 9,00
“I once had a shoe box of dust, it was something I would add to. One day I opened the lid, a little too quickly, and a cluster of baby moths ascended from the grey cloud shaped material I had collected. I had saved the dust because I thought I was saving time. That time, or its shadow, could look like something. The makeup of this stuff would carry gestures and ideas and other elemental abstractions. Enough small amounts, small hints and moments, collect to make a larger thing. Enough moments together create a memory.”
These 14 drawings choosen to represent MIND DUST allude to an alphabetic language and were made during a hot summer. The hard-line decision to present each page unedited, as a photograph of a drawing, was an attempt to show the cosmologies that can be incidentally created when a person sits down and spends some time wandering. Letting the ideas gather and build, creating their own space in time. It's a little abstract, poetic, conceptual, and illustrative. The drawn line is an element of language, a travelling form that compels towards composition. There isn't a story or narrative per se represented within the drawings, but there is an atmosphere. Portal words describing the atmospheric debris that collect on surfaces, objects, things, memories. Its accumulation represents both time and a transformation. Piling up alters a form, changes a shape, a silhouette, the outline of an idea has an extra component when this stuff is present. It’s cosmic, and abstract. Situationally reflective to a place, accumulated time, recording the passage of thoughts above, and around the subject/thing at hand. A disturbance blanket woven from other thoughts. It’s a resource, and a bank. Porous surfaces collect this element, while hardened ones present it. Water will smear, while humidity will create an inky paste.
MIND DUST
A series of thoughts, drawn
And then photographed.
Creating a nebulous presence that is casually legible.
Zin Taylor was born in Calgary, Canada in 1978. Presently, he lives and works in Torino, Italy. Mind Dust is his first publication with Kodoji Press.