Tales of a western road launch

It was early spring, the sun streaming its light through my bedroom window, warmly, onto a scatter of pages placed across the soft concrete floor; a book slowly piecing itself together. Somewhere soon though the cold of winter snapped, the fire of light billowing as I laid still under layers of bedding, staring blankly at the darkness of morning through my bedroom window, the shortest day coming and going all in the one breath. The pandemic had arrived. Downstairs in boxes rested this book, 9000 pages taped shut and stale while we waited for time to pass, for restrictions to ease and the act of gathering friends to again become legal.

And so months passed by, plans solidified and hijacked by COVID and then solidified again with our friends at Shibui. August 8th, Saturday night — finally we could welcome our friends to a night of celebration, releasing what had become two years worth of photographs and moving images and months spent in the confines of my garage working tirelessly on this book and film that made up ‘Tales of a western road’. A huge thank you to all who came out to celebrate and to the friends who made it all possible from Young Henrys and Ventura Brewing to Fast Proof Press and Shibui Film.