Dominance Diaries
A series of essay pamphlets reflecting on dominance, whiteness, parenting, political affiliation and anxiety, cultural and art criticism and more as part of an unlearning process. Each diary intersects imagery often pulled from a trove of childhood artifacts and ephemera. (2020-present)
Wallace
An incomplete dog owner's manual inspired by an English Bulldog I had and named for the writer David Foster Wallace.
About companionship, being a human-animal, and whiteness.
44 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2023
Pinkboy
A series of episodes mostly addressing growing up white and male in the Midwest US, including my once obsession with the writer David Foster Wallace.
28 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2022
The Paradox of the Arrow + Green Americans
Side 01 of this dos y dos pamphlet revisits a workshop lesson I once gave in the form of a short road trip on the eastern concurrency of NY Routes 5 and 20 for students to create a photobook. It reevaluates the ingrained colonialism of the road photobook form.
24 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2022
Side 02 traverses NY Routes 5 and 20 on its western concurrency this time with my spouse and son and how Manifest Destiny and its consequences get affected in me and the education politics of Western NY.
24 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2022
Green Americans is an insert in Paradox... that mashes up a 1955 Green Book guide with every photo of automobiles or referencing the road in The Americans photographed by Robert Frank in 1955-56.
24 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2022
Every Car
An expansive photo album of every car I’ve owned interweaving stories of car wrecks, kids with guns, the invisible among us, a lifetime of internalized racism...
28 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2022
Words and Flesh
Episodes about Christian indoctrination as a kid, its hold on various aspects of public life + pictures of the bearded white Jesus.
24 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2021
Masters
Appropriates childhood He-Man comics paired with a podcast bit by comedian Marc Maron about empathy for adults who defend superhero movies.
28 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2021
Basement Boys
Montages my childhood comics for episodes about coming of age under superhero or superpower narratives and men and boys attempting to draw power from self-isolation.
28 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2021
Luke
The Gospel of Luke + images of Luke Skywalker from childhood ephemera interspersed with episodes about parenting a young, white, blond, blue-eyed boy and the religious-like identification people have with movie franchises and capitalism.
40 page pamphlet
6.5x9 in, 2021
The Placeholders Volume 1
The Placeholders is a series of film-like photobooks of small ambient moments in immense cities. They often show the city as made of people and their movements through it. Volume 1 is multi-directional and uses the book’s gutter as the stairwell entry and exit of New York subways.
114 page book
5.5x8.5 in, 2023
The Ground
An artist's book and essay about creativity, individual complicity in climate collapse, energy mining, and energy sharing.
124 page book
8x12 in, 2013
The Ground LP by namelessnumberheadman
Ambient electronic recording including analog tape manipulation by the band namelessnumberheadman in response to my book The Ground. Screen printed jacket by Dan Varenka of Zaftig Press in Rochester, NY. Included is a 12x12 print.
Limited edition of 200.
Video album of namelessnumberheadman's The Ground, 28 minutes
Threshold
A lyric essay on travel and crossing borders. In an era of globalization and digitization, Threshold acts as a set of phenomenological instructions for sentience in new spaces.
88 page book
4x6.5 in, 2011
Binder
A collaboration with Kristen Merola published by Small Craft Advisory Press: "Artists Kris Merola and Tate Shaw created a virtual family photo archive and framed it within a fictional scholarly tome complete with fictional works cited page and printed page turns.The pages are contained within a binder with the possibility of reordering. The family pictured in the images is made up of people in the artists’ close circle of friends. The binder family references groups within communities of people that move away from their birthplaces and create familial like connections and relationships based on work, location, vocation, and geographical proximity."
26 page book and includes a laser cut and engraved paper sculptural object
7.25 x 9.5 in, 2010
Folder
Folder is a visual book with scale models next to representations ofimagined image architecture. The title comes from the idea of a folder on acomputer. The book imagines the possible connections between the picture files ina folder and has them combined in shapes that can be twisted, folded andknotted as if the images could be encountered architecturally.
40 page book
7.5x7.5 in, 2010
The Placeholders Volume 3
Volume 3 of The Placeholders is an animation of Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing, the most pedestrian populated intersection in the world. Bursts of photographs made in other places animate the clothing of the walkers in Shibuya. It is multi-directional without an exclusive front or back, top or bottom.
112 page book
5.5x8.5 in, 2009
God Bless This Circuitry
A collaboration with Andrew Sallee who contributes music, this book is a series of fictional episodes between a father and son who interrelate through the use of various machines. The story sections are each connected to found Christian tracts by circuit diagrams. As a whole it is structured as a protestant church service and designed like a car user's manual. Included is a CD of Andrew's ambient soundscape for listening while reading.
128 page book
5x10 in, 2007
Ordinary Curtains
A visual short story collection with different found imagery montaged to set the tones of each. The images make metaphors of various kinds of performance. Its structured like a Vaudeville show with different acts following one after another. These are separated by stage "curtains" of different types of paper.
204 page book
5.5x8.5 in, 2006
String Lessons
A set of five pamphlets that link to form a fiction that follows a violinist and violin teacher as she instructs three different students. Each booklet has its own distinctive design and imagery including drawings, paper cutout scannograms, sheet music montages, ultrasound waveforms, and 3-D body imaging wireframe graphics. Published by Visual Studies Workshop Press.
5 booklets of 20-24 pages each in a paper slip-case
5x7 in, 2004
