8” x 10.5”, 22 pages, inkjet printed
How Do You Know that When I’m Pointing to the Stars I’m Not Telling You to Look at the End of My Finger?
The titular question comes from a misinterpreted and reappropriated inquiry from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, on the subject of pointing.
All photographs taken in July 2024 in Ithaca, NY.
Photographs, design, and publishing by Jacquelyn Johnson / cool dry place.
Printed and bound in Ithaca, New York.
First edition of 10, December 2024.
Thank you
Nydia Blas and my Image Text MFA peers: Luke Christiansen, Julian Darwall, Vernell Dunam, Monique Flynn, Smith Galtney, Danielle Garcia, Maxwell Harvey-Sampson, Joseph Rafferty III, Jared Radin, David Richards, Clare Sheedy, Chris Stiegler, Marsha Taichman and Caroline Wallis, for the endless interpretation.
For
JJN, for visiting me, opening my windows, and for complicating the loneliness of these images.