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This is the second collaboration with Cig, after our award-winning publication Eat Flowers. There are a baker’s dozen photographs, thirteen images bound in the book, as well as an additional unbound print, titled Feast. Also included is the artist’s signature "mind map"--hand-colored by the author-- letterpress printed by Art Larson of Horton Tank Graphics. The interior of the book is designed and illustrated by Anneli Skaar. The edition of 40 will be bound by four generations of binders, ten copies each by Gray Parrot (pictured above with Cig Harvey), Claudia Cohen, Amy Borezo, and Gabby Cooksey. A veritable layer cake of extraordinary talent. Each binder was presented with a printed text block and given free rein.

Many of the cakes were made by Cig’s twelve-year-old daughter Scout, often impossibly precarious, decorated with wildly dripping abandon, even sent inexplicably floating on a river or into an inferno. These are confections gone wild, hinting at danger, decadence, and the ephemeral nature of beauty. all must navigate. It is at once a party and memento mori—a reminder to stop wasting time, agonizing over the past, and dreading the future. Cig is imploring us to embrace our one wild life with optimism while acknowledging its heartbreaks and complexities. Cig is an archeologist of the senses, for which she has an uncanny extrasensory perception. We lean in as all our senses are activated. She elevates the ordinary and knows exactly how to serve it forth.