MATTER is a book undertaken in collaboration with three photographers—Jessica Eaton, Matthew Gamber, and Bill Sullivan—and critic Peter Hall. We were interested in using the photographers' work and their specific explorations in the medium as a lens through which to think about sight, perception, and the science and psychology imbedded within the photographic image.

I used MATTER, a book in the LIFE Science Library series, as a vessel. I kept the existing pages and used existing chapter titles,  subheadings, and images and laid our content in overtop. I like the dialogue between the new and the existing.

Somewhere between textbook and catalogue, this prototype was funded by a Humble Grant.

I brought MATTER with me to Arizona to show Luke Batten and Jon Sadler of New Catalogue while we were there installing This is a Present. This is me showing Luke.

Chapter subhead: An Endless Search for Substance

Chapter subhead: Alchemy's Pursuit of the Meaning of Matter

Chapter subhead: Home Brews and Hopeful Amateurs

Chapter subhead: The Legacy of the Laboratory

Chapter subhead: The Basic Ingredients of a Complex World

Chapter subhead: The Basic Ingredients of a Complex World

Chapter subhead: The Wayward and Willful Ways of Gas

Chapter subhead: The Eccentric Domain of the Supercold

Chapter subhead: The Restless Surge of the Liquid State

Chapter subhead: The Phenomena of Familiar Kitchen Concoctions

Chapter subhead: A Deceptive Facade of Solidity

Chapter subhead: In Man-made Matter, a Whopping Jackpot

Chapter subhead: The First Step in Making Synthetics, Molecules Meet

Chapter subhead: A Host of Uses and a Promise of More to Come

Chapter subhead: Mapping the Terrain of the Atom

Chapter subhead: The Start of an Unfinished Chain Reaction

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