"The photographs featured in the book were printed with an inkjet printer on a heavy printmaking paper then water was applied to wash out areas of the ink. Images from The Ground are failures in their own right made to show something of the futility of trying to fix an image on a ground in any permanent way. Western New York Book Arts Center: "The Ground is an essay book including photographs made between 20 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking sites in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, as well as writing that documents failures both personal and historical to access the ground as a source of energy and to grasp its power. This essay book is about personal and historical failures to access the ground – both literally and metaphorically – as a source of energy and grasp its power." The resulting images are interwoven with a personal essay where Tate recounts a period when he lived in a pastoral part of Pennsylvania now inundated by the natural gas industry. The photographs were printed with an inkjet printer on heavy printmaking paper and then water was applied to wash out areas of the ink. Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Tate Shaw's The Ground started with photographs made between 20 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking and former coal mining sites in Pennsylvania. Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2013.ġ2 x 8" 124 pages with 2 gatefolds. We simply accept that analog books are lasting objects but in order to last they call for our continual participation." My work comes into being through the collaboration of a reader and a book may always be further reenacted, and reinterpreted, and this makes it an ongoing thing. There isn’t a central subject to my work other than a concern for structure and a way of connecting to people through ideas. Tate Shaw: "I make books to directly connect with other people and to learn something about the limits of connectivity. Preacher's Biscuit Books: "Publications reliant on the material book as a metaphor to create meaning in works by visual, sound and language artists."
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