{"product_id":"prepositions-for-elijah","title":"prepositions for elijah","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning in late 2019, Shaw began painting a simple motif of a chair, over and over. He went on to make hundreds of these paintings in ink and decoupage on leaves of ledger papers and time cards, until in early 2021, with a notebook full of more paintings he wanted to attempt, the painting ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the traditions of many cultures, chairs are left to sit empty for a saint, our ancestors, whomever we call upon in our specific moments, the ones our beliefs tell us are obliged to arise and to sit with us, as a blessing. Shaw painted thousands of chairs and then wrote to them. In words, he placed a memory as an entry in a record, on every chair represented in the painting—these memories that may not, or have not, or will, or will not have happened. He called these writings indictments of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\"\u003eprepositions for elijah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e explores themes of absence, memory, and loss. This book had never been until now. Gods-willing there will never need to be another eleven indictments of his memory: a man's broken recollection piled upon unhappened futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54526396465427,"sku":"9781948192354","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781948192354ita_44831908-3a2c-4443-9e55-32c699117b3d.jpg?v=1785852685","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/prepositions-for-elijah","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}