The Artist Edition of Pia-Paulina Guilmoth’s Flowers Drink the River includes one of four unique contact print that the artist produced in her bathroom. 

Pia’s photographs begin with patient acts of co-creation. She stages delicate sculptures out of spider silk, flowers, and other natural materials, then she waits as the land and water, wind, light, or a stray moth, begin to interact with them in unpredictable ways. Sometimes the creation takes the form of building trust with animals, carefully, over many nights. Each silver print is hand made by the artist, and bears the marks of its home made printing including scratches, dinks and dust. Their beauty is in their uniqueness. 

Presented as large format 3/4 Swiss bound volume, Flowers Drink the River's cover is replete with reproductions of an aged pink craft paper that Pia found stashed in an abandoned house down the road from her home. She then covered a spider web found along the river in a powdered red pigment and adhered it to the paper. Over this a cloth nameplate has been added, while the inside cover features a tipped on facsimile 4x5" contact print that she made in her bathroom.

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth is the author of At Night Gardens Grow, and Eternal Orchard also published by STANLEY/BARKER 

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Pages — 80
Cover — 3/4 + Swiss bound / facsimmile contact print / fabric tip on
Size — 30x24cm