Dodeca Meters: Sara J. Winston, tamara suarez porras, and Anna Rotty
ZC: First, I have to just say how grateful I am that Sara was willing to be the first book in the series, and with her, I could figure out all the specifics of the project alongside her work, including several issues with printing on some of the paper stocks we were potentially working with for all 12 books, and creating the specifications for every approach to printing we could use to send out to folks. Luckily, it all eventually came together nicely.
One of the approaches several artists took for this series was using their book as an opportunity to revisit older work that they hadn’t figured out yet. Good Weather is one of those books, a collection of photos almost a decade old that the exact timing of using them hadn’t felt right. I love the cover and how the grasshopper really became a symbol for the project, for me.
parallax errors is the risograph publication companion to porras’ body of work of the same name, concerned with how one perceives the world, both visually and experientially through their identity, and the unreliability of certainty they can provide. parallax errors is the second issue in the Dodeca Meters series, and is being released in conjunction or the debut of the photographic body of work at the California Institute of Integral Studies, on February 3rd, 2024.
parallax errors is 36 pages, Risograph printed in Mist on French Night Shift paper. 5×8″. Edition of 200 +25. Published in February of 2024.
Cottonwood Prism is 24 pages, Risograph printed in Blue on French Natural Kraft and Springhill Blue paper. 5×8″. Edition of 200 +25. Published in March of 2024.
Zach Clark is an artist, educator, and curator based in Oakland, California; the publisher of National Monument Press; one half of Chute Studio; a collaborative Risograph publishing studio; author of A Mixtape Left Behind, a monthly music and memory newsletter.
National Monument Press is the publishing project of Oakland based artist Zach Clark focused on supporting the investigation and documentation of uniquely American stories through small edition artists’ books, zines, and printed matter, conceived of and completed largely through collaboration with other artists.
Sara J. Winston is a contributing editor to Lenscratch. She is an artist and writer based in New York. She works with photographs, text, and the book form to describe and respond to chronic illness and its ongoing impact on her body, mind, family, and memory. Sara is the author of several photobooks, among them Foibles & Avoidance (National Monument Press, 2024), Shades (Push Pull Editions, 2023), A Lick and a Promise (Candor Arts, 2017) and Homesick (Zatara Press, 2015).
Sara is Artist in Residence and Photography Program Coordinator at Bard College; Acting Chair of the Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program; and a member of Storm King Art Center‘s Accessibility Advisory Group.
On June 29, 2023, her long-term project about multiple sclerosis care, Our body is a clock, was adapted and published as an op-ed in the New York Times, titled ‘My body is a clock’: The Private Life of Chronic Care.
tamara suarez porras (they/she) is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY, and based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
tamara’s work examines experiences of knowing, remembering, and forgetting, working across photography, writing, installation, filmmaking, and performance. tamara has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, School at the International Center of Photography, Center for Book Arts, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as Root Division, Kala Art Institute Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco Center for the Book, Your Mood Projects, fusedspace, The Growlery, and Embark Gallery in the San Francisco Bay Area. tamara’s writing has been published on The Brooklyn Rail, Art Practical, and 48hills.
tamara is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography+Imaging and Journalism and of California College of the Arts with a dual MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies. tamara is a Lecturer in the Art Practice department at Stanford University, and has also taught at colleges and universities across the Bay Area. tamara is a member of Black Hole Collective Film Lab and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure.
Anna Rotty investigates water, light, and infrastructure, informing her understanding of orientation and place. By constructing landscapes and making light a priority, Anna looks to highlight the intangible and emotional aspects of the world. Recent photographic and installation-based work explores the waters of the Rio Grande where she lives. She recently received her MFA from the University of New Mexico on Tiwa land known as Albuquerque, where she teaches photography. She is a current fellow at the Silver Eye Center for Photography.
Follow Zach Clark/National Monument Press, Sara J. Winston, tamara suarez porras, and Anna Rotty on Instagram: @zachclarkis; @sarajwinston; @obviously_tma; @annarotty
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