The Lagoon Empties, 2024, edition of 12.  Saddle-bound risograph zine featuring landscape drawings and travel notes from a 2013 residency in southwestern Iceland. 5.5” tall x 6” wide. 20 pages. Signed and numbered. 

This sequence of contour line drawings and incomplete travel notes presents a fragmented narrative about the flawed nature of memory. Created with materials from a 2013 residency in southwestern Iceland, revisiting my observations years later feels strange; the language seems specific and vague, concrete and ethereal, personal and universal. The vivid greens and blues evoke the vivid mosses and turquoise glacial waters we saw on our travels.

Here are a few excerpts:

 “Cool, misty gusts flap my rain hood against my ears— moss colonies spread across lava rocks like new galaxies.” 

“I see that the lagoon empties the ice slowly, each chuck must first melt down in size before it can pass through the bottle neck and reach the sea.” 

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