Mother Aikaterini Gegisian The early settlers dubbed California

The early settlers dubbed California ‘The Golden State’ and ‘The Land of Milk and Honey’

as water is returned to life and movement

the book playfully recontextualises images from popular culture that Gegisian has sourced — from pornographic magazines

including Structural(ism) and Photography (1978)

arguing that the camera is now profoundly imbricated in that which is not visible

Mother Aikaterini Gegisian The early settlers dubbed CaliforniaArtists drawing or painting their mother has become iconic in art historyfrom Whistler through Freud, Cezanne, Hockney, Ingres, Gauguin or Durer, whose brutally honest portraits of his mother insisted that Even the smallest wrinkles and veins must not be ignored. Paul Grahams first major body of work since 2014s Does Yellow Run Forever? contains portraits of his elderly mother sitting in her chair in a retirement community in England. Grahams camera