
Ink
- Publisher
- Fall Line Press
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9781734831207
- Specifications
- Softcover
27.9 x 35.6 cm
60 pages
22 colour illustrations
An unusual body of work that came about serendipitously after Tanya Marcuse’s young son insisted on trying nocturnal squid fishing one summer in Maine. Unlike her large-scale, elaborate works, these images were made with an iPhone camera. The bodies of squid spread acrobatically across newspaper headlines, fashion advertisements and marriage announcements, echoing the broadside’s sense of moral warning and impending apocalypse. As the squid ink obscures the printer’s ink, the photographs explore the materiality of the newspaper and the interplay between its sense of fact and order and the primordial chaos of the tangled tentacles.