Shayna Arnold – Swans

Shayna Arnold – SwansSwans is a self published photobook by Shayna Arnold. Inside this publication Arnold shows a selection of images of textiles she made over the last five years, worn by her sister. 24pp, 200 x 297 mm Debossed Softcover Self published, first edition 2023

creating narratives

which took over 20 years

Signed by the artist

without concern for cohesion or retrospection

the people and their rituals

Published in January 2019

and engages with an ambitious accordion-folded format that references Silano’s photo-based installations: two twenty-panel long sequences that can be read as both one continuous collage and a sequence of individual images

revealing the cryptic symbols etched across their surfaces and embedded in their shadows

Slipcase with clamshell and folder

fourth printing

For 60 years

anonymous forms hovering in space