The Lost Boys
On September 26, 2014, forty-three students from Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, on their way to a political protest were kidnapped and murdered, under the order of the town mayor, Jose Luis Abarca Velazquez, and his wife.
The forty-three boys were students at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College. To this day none of the boy’s bodies have been found. This memorial composed of 43 unique handmade books, echos the injustice, racial discrimination, and political corruption, occurring not just here in America, but all over the world.
The 43 books were created with Cyno-type photographic process, each book is 4” x 4” and each book is uniquely decorated.
Where Trees Do Not Exist
Donated to Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.
“Where Trees Do Not Exist”, documents the local music scene in Lubbock in the twenty-first century and was created within an interdisciplinary methodological framework. A collaborative effort, including the scholarship from the fields of Photographic Book Arts, Geography, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sociology, this book incorporates music, photography and bookmaking and is ultimately the result of both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Science in the field of Geography. We maintain that an interdisciplinary approach provides for a much richer documentation of place, which, according to geographers Tim Cresswell and Edward Soja, facilitates creative social practice. “Where Trees Do Not Exist” illustrates how the landscape affects musicians and how their craft interacts and influences Lubbock and its character of place.
This book was created as a collaboration with Catlin Grann (Geographer) and myself. The book case was made possible with the help of Dr. John Chandler.
