TOTEMS

Totems

Handmade Artist Book
Edition: 25 copies and 5 artist proofs
25 Archival Pigment prints on Hahnemuele Photo Rag cotton paper
Hardcover Swiss-binding with a tipped-in image printed on silk

“Like moais standing by the ocean, these post-industrial ‘Totems’ become the perfect metaphor for what could be the only remnants of our human civilization. These ‘Totems’, which are actually eroded vestiges of industrial farm walls, become the perfect metaphor for the contemporary chiefs and deities that rule our ‘Modern Project’, as coined by the philosopher Martin Heidegger. Eventually, like the moais, they might serve as the only traces that remain after its collapse. How will these ‘sculptures’ be deciphered once we are gone?“

-Rafael Rojas