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we appear to be stuck somewhere between outrageous production and excessive preservation

Looney Tunes and the Youtube fossil Tha Cliff from 2006

and the curious neighborhood cats that cross his path

In Responding to Particular Needs at a Precise Moment photographer Jonas von Lenthe examines the architecture of the Albanian capital

Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration horticulturalistsIts no mistake that Lenard Smiths new book borrows its title from Susan Sontags 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects the Los Angeles based artists first publication for Perimeter Editions grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the