Pattern Book

Hardbound, full-color, 104 pagesDimensions: 8.75” x 11.5” x 0.5” ISBN: 978-0-9814623-7-0Cover price: $56.99 Pattern Book by Christopher Russell collects a number of images and texts, images woven through text, and texts woven together through images.  "I was born wanting a Christopher Russell to join me in this confusing world.... I wanted a boy with confused gaze, mortified as I am by the harsh and ugly crumples of life, but one who, with bold decisive strokes, could hack a pathway out if it. ... Russell’s method, in which he dethrones language’s hegemony over rival visual formations by distorting and exaggerating its recognizable, even homey, patterns borrows roots from many traditions. Medieval monks are said to have curried favor with abbots by carving Bible verses into the head of a pin.... When language, or the image, is enervated, the work of art has room for other connotations to manifest.... And in these beautiful pages we will see, and we will not see, things it will take us