A seventeenth-century object, excavated from a London sewer, serves as a touchstone for this book. This object, and the act of its retrieval, bring to mind a sense of temporality, a reminder that things are sometimes lost but can also be recovered.
You & i are Earth, edited by Fergus Feehily, comprises a collection of texts that share painting as a starting point. Many of the essays lead us through a diverse range of thoughts and interests related to memory, music, history, literature, and personal experience, often taking note of the seemingly incidental yet pivotal. Like the inscription on the found object, paintings contain moments, feelings, obsessions – traces of life preserved in layers of pigment.
With contributions by Annie May Demozay, John Graham, Jack Hanley, Mary Heilmann, Naotaka Hiro, Fergus Feehily, Rebecca O’Dwyer, Paul P., Eleanor Ray, Luis Sagasti, Carole Seborovski, Mark Swords, Stephen Truax, and Joost van den Bergh.
Published by Paper Visual Art , March 2021
Design: an Atelier Project Kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, 12 × 18.9 cm, 112 pages, 8 b/w and 14 colour illustrations, softcover ISBN 978–1–9161509–1–1