Epidote Press
@epidotepress.bsky.social
Publishing imprint based in the Point Reyes Peninsula. Art & writing concerned with translation, folklore, natural history, and the poetics of place. www.epidotepress.com
If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...
My partner in crime, @herbert_pfostl, has an exhibition opening at Bolinas Museum next Saturday! "Between Field and Firmament” will be up through August 6th. He will be in conversation with the curator in an event titled "The Hard Part is Silence" on June 24th. Details below!
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
My partner in crime, @herbert_pfostl, has an exhibition opening at Bolinas Museum next Saturday! "Between Field and Firmament” will be up through August 6th. He will be in conversation with the curator in an event titled "The Hard Part is Silence" on June 24th. Details below!
Rena Papaspyrou's "Photocopies directly from matter," 1980-1981. Thanks to Steve Roden for introducing me to Papaspyrou's work. Sadly, it's nearly impossible to find any of her books in print.
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Rena Papaspyrou's "Photocopies directly from matter," 1980-1981. Thanks to Steve Roden for introducing me to Papaspyrou's work. Sadly, it's nearly impossible to find any of her books in print.
Rena Papaspyrou (b. 1938), "Geography—Images through Matter," 1981, Metal Sheet with Traces of Cement and Graphite. For S.R.
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Rena Papaspyrou (b. 1938), "Geography—Images through Matter," 1981, Metal Sheet with Traces of Cement and Graphite. For S.R.
Liliana Porter, Plate V from Wrinkle, photogravure, 1968.
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Liliana Porter, Plate V from Wrinkle, photogravure, 1968.
It's that time of year when the westering sun sets the windows on fire at the end of the day. And the Golden-Crested Sparrow has arrived with its melancholy, whistling song. Image: Sun flares & light leaks in the last exposed sheet of decades-old Polaroid film.
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
It's that time of year when the westering sun sets the windows on fire at the end of the day. And the Golden-Crested Sparrow has arrived with its melancholy, whistling song. Image: Sun flares & light leaks in the last exposed sheet of decades-old Polaroid film.
Couple standing in front of Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1951-1952.
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Couple standing in front of Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1951-1952.
Pasted on the cover of an old notebook: "source of, may be extinguished while we still see its rays.
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Pasted on the cover of an old notebook: "source of, may be extinguished while we still see its rays.
Signal Lights: Hedda Sterne's drawings from the 1960s and 1970s—the Baldanders and the Lettuces. A mystic who loved Simone Weil & road-tripped with Delores Del Rio, who used a magnifying glass to continue drawing when she lost her vision as she neared the age of one hundred. Yes!
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Signal Lights: Hedda Sterne's drawings from the 1960s and 1970s—the Baldanders and the Lettuces. A mystic who loved Simone Weil & road-tripped with Delores Del Rio, who used a magnifying glass to continue drawing when she lost her vision as she neared the age of one hundred. Yes!
Evening Commute—Bolinas to Point Reyes by way of Olema Valley—a literal suture resting above the San Andreas fault, binding two entirely different tectonic plates. Different stones, flora, fauna, & sounds straddle the center, & there is often a fine layer of fog above the valley.
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Evening Commute—Bolinas to Point Reyes by way of Olema Valley—a literal suture resting above the San Andreas fault, binding two entirely different tectonic plates. Different stones, flora, fauna, & sounds straddle the center, & there is often a fine layer of fog above the valley.
Home: The wild & unpredictable coastline of the Point Reyes Peninsula—separated by time & tectonics from the North American continent. “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” — Motto attributed to the California Life Saving Service, 19th century
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Home: The wild & unpredictable coastline of the Point Reyes Peninsula—separated by time & tectonics from the North American continent. “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” — Motto attributed to the California Life Saving Service, 19th century
David Gatten, "The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found" (film still), 2001. Book as strata.
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
David Gatten, "The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost and Found" (film still), 2001. Book as strata.
A beautiful image of the ephemeral & uncommon Riella plant, a genus in the liverwort family Riellaceae. Although widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, populations are fleeting and found in only a few known locations. From a Swedish botanical I picked up in Memphis, TN.
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
A beautiful image of the ephemeral & uncommon Riella plant, a genus in the liverwort family Riellaceae. Although widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, populations are fleeting and found in only a few known locations. From a Swedish botanical I picked up in Memphis, TN.
Sierra Nevada mercury in the form of cinnabar crystals. A film still from a project I completed in 2012. #FromTheArchives
November 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Sierra Nevada mercury in the form of cinnabar crystals. A film still from a project I completed in 2012. #FromTheArchives
A plate from Claudio Gobbi’s beautiful & intriguing study of the persistence of symbol and style in Armenian architecture—Armenie Ville. With few variations, these structures are constructed of square blocks of stone—grey or red basalt found in the highlands of the Caucasus Minor
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
A plate from Claudio Gobbi’s beautiful & intriguing study of the persistence of symbol and style in Armenian architecture—Armenie Ville. With few variations, these structures are constructed of square blocks of stone—grey or red basalt found in the highlands of the Caucasus Minor
This exquisite book arrived yesterday—Don Domanski, Selected Poems, 1975-2021—published by @Corbel_Stone. At rest, for the moment, beneath another cherished gift—a Seghers print of the underside of stones, a vapour of trees, and some constellation of night.
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
This exquisite book arrived yesterday—Don Domanski, Selected Poems, 1975-2021—published by @Corbel_Stone. At rest, for the moment, beneath another cherished gift—a Seghers print of the underside of stones, a vapour of trees, and some constellation of night.
Deciphering pages in my old notebooks, I found the following passage beside this photograph taken by Amélie Galup (1856-1943): "No sister should comb her hair at night, if she have a brother at sea." — John Francis Campbell, Tales of the West Highlands, 1862
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Deciphering pages in my old notebooks, I found the following passage beside this photograph taken by Amélie Galup (1856-1943): "No sister should comb her hair at night, if she have a brother at sea." — John Francis Campbell, Tales of the West Highlands, 1862
"Listen to this. There is a need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower. It could be like a break on the radio. Such signals sometimes sound as if they lasted an entire life. Listen." —Arvo Pärt discussing "Für Alina
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"Listen to this. There is a need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower. It could be like a break on the radio. Such signals sometimes sound as if they lasted an entire life. Listen." —Arvo Pärt discussing "Für Alina
Indian muslin—described as being so fine that a hundred yards could pass through the eye of a needle—has been compared with the skin of the moon removed by the executioner-star. When the finest muslin is laid on the grass, & the dew has fallen upon it, it is no longer discernible
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Indian muslin—described as being so fine that a hundred yards could pass through the eye of a needle—has been compared with the skin of the moon removed by the executioner-star. When the finest muslin is laid on the grass, & the dew has fallen upon it, it is no longer discernible
Signal Lights: "The Unpainted Landscape" (1987), published by Coracle Press. This book introduced me to Roger Ackling, Herman de Vries & so many others. It ends with a beautiful text by Clark titled "In Praise of Walking."
Pictured: Roger Ackling's "Five Sunsets in One Hour.
Pictured: Roger Ackling's "Five Sunsets in One Hour.
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Signal Lights: "The Unpainted Landscape" (1987), published by Coracle Press. This book introduced me to Roger Ackling, Herman de Vries & so many others. It ends with a beautiful text by Clark titled "In Praise of Walking."
Pictured: Roger Ackling's "Five Sunsets in One Hour.
Pictured: Roger Ackling's "Five Sunsets in One Hour.
Happy Birthday to this beautiful & dearly missed woman. My godmother, Diane, who taught me so much through her love of poetry, and by sending me to Field's bookshop on Polk Street in search of titles on mysticism & hermeticism.
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Happy Birthday to this beautiful & dearly missed woman. My godmother, Diane, who taught me so much through her love of poetry, and by sending me to Field's bookshop on Polk Street in search of titles on mysticism & hermeticism.
"Once caught, the ox is no longer visible." — One of the fifty marvelous "Ox-Herding Pictures" Cage made while testing his brush on brown paper towels at the Mountain Lake Workshop in Virginia.
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
"Once caught, the ox is no longer visible." — One of the fifty marvelous "Ox-Herding Pictures" Cage made while testing his brush on brown paper towels at the Mountain Lake Workshop in Virginia.
Chesterton on Mary Webb: “In one sense it was the light that never was on sea or land, and in another sense the light without which sea and land are invisible; but...it is certain that without that dark...there would have never been any love of the land or any songs of the sea.”
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Chesterton on Mary Webb: “In one sense it was the light that never was on sea or land, and in another sense the light without which sea and land are invisible; but...it is certain that without that dark...there would have never been any love of the land or any songs of the sea.”
Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, “poet of raw earth,” advocated for the return of “vernacular earth architecture,” devoting his career to rediscovering the increasingly lost and forgotten forms of traditional Arab structures, which were created by sand, history, wind, and shadow.
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, “poet of raw earth,” advocated for the return of “vernacular earth architecture,” devoting his career to rediscovering the increasingly lost and forgotten forms of traditional Arab structures, which were created by sand, history, wind, and shadow.