Paperback, full colour, 129 pages, W169 x H227mm
This book surveys the American artist’s work over the last 10 years
and offers insight into his fascination with mechanical and redundant
technologies. The catalogue takes its name from a work in which Ramírez
Jonas fabricated replica kites from the turn of the century. Attached
to each kite is a clockwork camera that takes a photograph of the
artist on the ground below. These photographs depict the isolated
artist in an expansive landscape, the guide rope appearing like an
umbilical cord connecting body to air.
Other projects featured include A Longer Day, in which he
endeavours to prolong the hours of daylight by driving west into the
sunset, lengthening the day by twenty-three seconds. Ramírez’s subtle
humour and lightness of touch is communicated through the interviews
and texts that shed light on this fascinating body of work.