In the latest (d of z for those keeping track) addition to his publication project This Is What I Thought You Meant by Contemporary American Folk Art, Jesse Malmed has produced a beautiful zine of video stills. There is a great pleasure to taking the ephemeral, accelerating mesmer of these videos and stilling them: their grainy textures enhanced and shaped by xerox aesthetics, hypnotic static rendered static. Here, now, a chance to hold in one’s hands something typically immaterial:
Hand-cut and -sewn (some -stapled). Black and white and grays. 5ish” x 8ish”. 30 pages. $4. TIWITYMBCAFA a, b + c available here.
By Jesse Malmed for DEEP LEAP and you.