Utopia Books

(from Forever Restless Earth)

Access to Tools

Spirit & Technique

Name a Star

Set of three handmade folding books including photographs, writing, and custom slip covers.

Each book is produced in an edition of 25.

11x9” up to 11x63” unfolded

(2019)

In the writing and research for this work, I look to my home state of California as a historical hub of countercultural activity and experimentation that is also emblematic of a troubling “pioneer-spirit”. Hippie nomadism, “Ecotopian” communes, countercultural publications like The Whole Earth Catalog, and Science Fiction desires like terraforming become reference material for new ways to process legacies of neoliberal failure, ecological disaster, and colonial violence.

I hold space for utopia, aware that it does not - and can not - exist. 

documentation by Max Wagner