Bramasole

A monograph of untitled photo artworks taken by the artist to vicariously reflect a childhood through his cousins, Drew and Jimmy, living at the farming village in Northern California where he grew up before moving to Los Angeles. Prints published on sheet-fed gravure pages.

“Medieval witchcraft trials could be more explicit and serious, as we saw with Alice Kyteler in the 1320s. A century after that episode, England burned the mystical warrior Joan of Arc for heresy and treason, but with supplementary charges of invoking spirits. A few years later, Eleanor Cobham, duchess of Gloucester, did penance for attempting to kill Henry VI using sorcery; her accomplices, an astrologer and cunning woman, were executed. But these were political show trials, side effects of the transition of power from medieval courts to modern governments. This was only a vague precursor of the practice whereby villagers pursued malevolent neighbours at law. That came in the 16th century with demographic growth, economic competition, cultural fragmentation, confessionalstate-building, and the expansion of the law – a far more extensive transformation of European life”.

Pigment Print, Hahnemühle Photo Rag // 110 x 100 cm