"Russell weaves his writing into pictures... He chops his text into
geometric shapes, casts it in rainbow colors and visually
assaultive fonts, and scratches it onto photographs. In the work
contained here, in Pattern Book, he laces text into art nouveau
wallpaper, dissolving his stories into a swooning screen of
domestic pattern. At every turn, it seems, Russell throws some
wrench into the cogs of literary consumption, slowing the reader
down, jostling expectations, demanding attention-challenging the
reader, in other words, to really want to be reading."-Holly Myers
Pattern Book by Christopher Russell collects a number of images and
texts, images woven through texts, and texts woven together through
images. Kevin Killian, author of Impossible Princess (City Lights
2009), says, "I was born wanting a Christopher Russell to join me
in this confusing world.... I wanted a boy with confused gaze,
mortified as I am by the harsh and ugly crumples of life, but one
who, with bold decisive strokes, could hack a pathway out if it.
... Russell's method, in which he dethrones language's hegemony
over rival visual formations by distorting and exaggerating its
recognizable, even homey, patterns borrows roots from many
traditions. Medieval monks are said to have curried favor with
abbots by carving Bible verses into the head of a pin. ... When
language, or the image, is enervated, the work of art has room for
other connotations to manifest. ... And in these beautiful pages we
will see, and we will not see, things it will take us a hundred
years to understand."
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