hand-drawn fascimile reproduction (and fanzine excerpt), 2024
cut paper, graphite, risograph reproductions
We do not get to choose what moves us.
When my own life lacks transparency to me, The Deer Sayers surfaces as a safe and reliable mystery. First shared with me by librarian Mo Dawley, the whole book is just three amateur photographs and three sentences of text. A coin envelope is affixed to the outside of the back cover, and a magnifying glass is inside.
Thank you to Jill Chisnell for recovering The Deer Sayers (1978) from the Carnegie Mellon University library annex.
Works Cited
Berger, John. The Shape of a Pocket. Vintage, 2003.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. Penguin Classics, 2008.
Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Harper & Row, 1974.
Blakely, George, editor. The Deer Sayers. Tyler School of Art, 1978.
Magritte, Rene. The Interpretation of Dreams. Brussels, 1935.
Radin, Jared. 2024. Ithaca, New York.
White, Stewart Edward. The Mountains. Doubleday, 1910.
A dummy-version of Seeing Deer was presented in the Bruce Gallery at Carnegie Museum of Art as part of Pittsburgh Art Book Fair’s Readings + Releases program on September 21st, 2025.
book-dummy excerpt
