"Traveling with a box of prints, a pair of scissors, a container of glue, colored pencils, and a sketchbook, I asked willing collaborators to draw on, reassemble, and use their own tools on my photographs. I hoped that the new images would bring Uyghur perspectives into the work and facilitate a new kind of dialogue with the people I met – one that was face-to-face and tactile, if mostly without words. We sat down together in restaurants, art studios, shoe shops, walnut orchards, public parks, courtyards, hotel rooms, slaughterhouses, and jade bazaars while they worked on the images. The collages and drawings they made are the product of our exchange, in all their roughness, ambiguity, and risk."
Artist Carolyn Drake in Time Magazine about her new book Wild Pigeon, an amalgam of photographs, drawings, embroidery, and texts made in Uyghur areas of western China. Read the full interview here.
(via Wild Pigeon 2 — Carolyn Drake)