08/05/2023
New Book Release—
“Nocturnal” is Rusty Fox’s latest photobook capturing the body-like forms of plants in the city. Starting during the Pandemic lockdown in Macau, the artist sneaked out at night and wandered around and noticed that the plants were thriving more than ever. The vividness of the plants at a time when everything else is in perfect stillness has initiated the project. Despite his subject being plants, their body language speaks louder than words.
“Nocturnal” is an invitation to the parallel but alternative world, starting with the texture of the paper, the imagery narrative, and ultimately the whole reading experience, as if reading a mysterious tale from a vintage novel.
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‘The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.’ — by Hans Bellmer
“…Here in Nocturnal, the creatures introduce a deviant spectrum to the eye, where in darkness manifest their radiant beauty. Their skin lay hardened, crinkled, and scaly, with occasional opens to holes that are both thrilling and inviting, as if connecting to a dangerous abyss that hints at the mysterious origin of life. Protruded stems and crooked branches elongating into forms seemingly dancing through delirium…
… Watching the Nocturnal creatures with strange familiarity, one might think he has heard of them in one of H.P. Lovecraft’s old tales and finally come to witness, where the eminence of grotesqueness and flawlessness intertwine into an endless enigma. ”—Words from the editor
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Author
Rusty Fox
Editor
Rusty Fox, Yang Sio Maan (Yang Illustration 洋小漫)
Book Designer
Yang Sio Maan
Publisher
Fizzy Ink Publishing Ltd.
Printer
Tipografia Macau Hung Heng Lda.
Printed and published in Macau, 2023 April
1st Edition, 300 copies
ISBN 978-99981-469-0-4
Book info.
Softcover, 21x17cm, 150g
Paperback, 44 pages
Price
MOP/HKD 200 / USD 25 / EUR 22 / GBP 20
All Rights Reserved © Rusty Fox
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