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Encountering prescribed burning for the first time, I was unsure of what I was looking at or why it was being done. Though it seemed counterintuitive to set a landscape on fire, there must have been a reason for it. As my interest grew, I developed a relationship with a group of prescribed burn technicians working across southwestern Ontario. Since 2017, I have had the privilege of walking alongside them as they work.
In teasing out my initial uncertainty around prescribed burning, and embodying the act of looking and moving, there are many sequences, repetitions, and formal elements at work in this book. Sequences of pictures with similar views evoke subtle movement – a shift in bodyweight, a slight turn of the head – expanding the implication of the physical space. Repetition in the book calls to mind the act of walking a familiar place over and over again, of seeing similar objects or patterns that change gradually every day, and calling the permanence of memory into question. Even the horizon line rises and falls like smoke and fire eddying on turbulent air.
“At the heart of Beneath Two Skies is a performative structure that mirrors the seasonal cycles of the land it depicts. Hobler’s use of photographic sequences—with repeated viewpoints and motifs—recreates the sensation of walking the same terrain day after day, season after season. This rhythm evokes not just the passage of time but a kind of musicality: images rise and fall, drift and return, as though following the undulating tempo of a slow, solemn composition.“
-- Steve Bisson, Urbanautica
First copies will ship late-November.
Edition of 150.
Fan-bound soft cover book.
12.5” x 9.3125” landscape format.
74 text pp, tip-in cover, and dust jacket.
Self-published, October 2025.
It is important that you select the shipping associated with the book you’re ordering, otherwise your order will be cancelled.
An experiment in materials, this handmade booklet has a single, repeated picture in dialogue with abstract charcoal drawings. Printed on translucent paper, the interaction between the drawings and the formal elements of the picture form the core of this work. The material relationship to the larger subject matter is played with in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Each copy is unique.
Edition of 60.
32pp, 5¼” x 7¼”, stitch binding, debossed cover.
Self-published, December 2024.
It is important that you select the shipping associated with the book you’re ordering, otherwise your order will be cancelled.
Segments & Leaves Laying About
special print edition
Each special edition comes with a one-of-a-kind burned 5¼” x 7¼” print on French parchtone.
This print must be floated in a frame.
Edition of 10.
Beneath Two Skies
Segments & Leaves Laying About
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