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An Arrangement [Artist Book].
CA: Mob of Two, 2024. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A collaboration with Krähn, Tiana via MOB of TWO.
Trollop, slut, floozy, strumpet. These epithets describe a woman who trades on her charms.
Missus, girlfriend, beloved, betrothed. These might also describe a woman who trades on her charms.
Many sexual relationships have a transactional element, regardless of whether true feeling is present. Financial support is just one of the needs that can be met in such an exchange.
Where does one draw the line between what is criminal and what is celebrated? Why does a contract for permanency elevate the arrangement?
This book presents a series of portraits on increasingly shabby walls. Reduction prints, sequence and carefully chosen titles point out language’s power to confer respectability. Once named, a relationship takes its position on the spectrum of morality.
We reject the stigma placed on women outside of marriage who choose to use their own bodies as currency. We acknowledge the many different circumstances in which one might encounter or offer Love for Sale. FIne. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, black leather spine, drum leaf binding with flyaway spine and cover cutout, purple patterned cloth boards, printed letterpress, monotype, and linoleum reduction prints, inserted giclee prints of eleven original paintings. 8vo. Numbered limited edition of 20, this being 8. Item #12350
Price: $1,800.00