Dear friends,
I am happy to announce the printed publication of the book from the work that I appreciate so much by Christina McPhee : "La conchita mon amour": catalog with essay and interview http://www.lulu.com/content/457564 Quote: La Conchita mon amour (2005-2006) is a site study by Christina McPhee of the aftermath of a deadly debris that occurred in 2005 in the town of La Conchita, California, north of Los Angeles. The project¹s beta launch at Sara Tecchia, New York, in October-November 2006, includes photographic montages, video stills and drawings. Together with images, artists essay and interview, this catalog also anticipates the publication of the interactive online project, "La Conchita mon amour" on New York's www.turbulence.org forthcoming from November 7, 2006. La Conchita remaps the problematic of living with disaster in California in immediate, raw terms. Global warming appears to be accelerating the danger. Without resources for healing or leaving, La Conchita lives on in abandonment. McPhee's images reach through obsessive layers of visual data towards an integration beyond the material facts of the site. The large-scale images that result from this process are topologies of absence and recovery. A.
